Music
F
OR THE PAST DECADE,
Claire Boucher has
been releasing deeply
weird, often gorgeous,
occasionally terrifying music
under the name Grimes,
chasing her own thrillingly
strange notion of genre-less
pop ecstasy. Boucher sings in
a voice that evokes Siri
possessed by a demon, and
her goth-bubblegum sound
seems to pull equally from
Mariah Carey and Nine Inch
Nails. She first broke through
with “Oblivion,” a haunting
depiction of being a woman
alone after dark, from her
2012 LP, Visions. Her 2015
follow-up, Art Angels, was
just as challenging, but also
brighter and shinier, the
work of an ambitious artist
looking for the biggest stage
possible.ILLUSTRATION BY
Natalie FossGrimes
Miss Anthropocene
4AD
3The adventurous
pop artist delivers
a concept record
about climate
change (sort of)
By CLAIRE SHAFFERGRIMES
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