Commenting on the creation of her latest release, Miss Boucher says “ Visions was conceived in a period of self-imposed cloistering during which time I did not see daylight.” So then to Visions, the new album from Grimes which also marks her debut for the 4AD label. There’s a percussive quality to a lot of the work that drives the songs, building up an infectious rhythm that gets feet tapping even when you’re still waiting for the melody to appear. The striking thing about Grimes is the way tunes emerge from these often complicated and bizarrely constructed songs (Boucher clearly doesn’t have much time for verse, chorus, middle-eight when writing her material).
The experiments are not necessarily always successful, but songs such as ‘Dream Fortress’ and ‘My Sister Says The Saddest Things’ captured a unique painful beauty that’s difficult to draw comparisons to, although she’s often mentioned in the same breath as Lykke Li and Austra (and there is also a hint of early Virginia Astley). The result was an ethereal, other-worldly quality that often lent an hypnotic element to the music. Grimes had already been established with two separate releases in 2010, Halfaxa and the Dune-influenced Geidi Primes, that gathered together a collection of brooding electronica overlaid by Boucher’s distinctive soprano vocals. The creative process is a quest for the ultimate sensual, mystical and cathartic experience and the vehicle for my psychic purging”. It is both an ethereal escape from, and a violent embrace of, my experience. The term ‘Renaissance Period’ has been bandied about and few could argue that the current healthy scene shows little sign of slowing down as more and more artists and bands emerge to the attention of a wider audience.Įnter Grimes, aka Claire Boucher – a Canadian artist who employs several disciplines, including art, performance and music and pulling in musical influences featuring everything from K-pop to glitch along the way.Ĭlaire is quoted as describing her work thus: “The only means through which I can be fully expressive. It’s been a very interesting period for the electronic music enthusiast with electropop gaining a very prominent profile via some of the new artists emerging.
Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens…
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