When Claire Boucher, the artist known as Grimes, released her album Art Angels in 2015, her sound did a full 180. The cold, electronic minimalism that catapulted her to mainstream success on her 2012 album Visions went through a dizzying, sugary makeover, with Boucher zipping between pop-punk riffs and squelchy synths that made for an album that sounded like living inside a beautiful pinball machine. But even for all of its eccentric excess, Art Angels was also a hopeful record, one that, once you set aside its fantasy images of angels, princesses, and imaginary battles, felt like a raw statement of self-preservation and resilience. “There’s harmony in everything,” Boucher sang at the album’s end. “It’s a butterfly whose wings span the world.”
with Tesla and SpaceX entrepreneur Elon Musk, a man who wants to make Mars habitable and distrusts artificial intelligence, among other wild ideas, might also explain its nihilist, cyber-punk streak.
“Unrest is in the soul, we don’t move our bodies anymore,” she sings on the boring club track “Darkseid,” a neutered vision of the world Boucher’s imagining here.is how relatively familiar it feels, especially for an artist who appeared to have been growing more assured and independent in her sound as a producer. In the past, it was arguably hard to hear a Grimes song and pinpoint exactly what else it drew inspiration from, in the past or present.
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