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Grimes


The musical project of Vancouver, Canada's Claire Bouche started in 2007 when she decided to start messin' around with a little music programming software called Logic Pro.  She soon had a viral MySpace page. Unfortunately her early releases (songs like "Ham Mer Maid," "Gloam," "The Crazy Doctor," & "World Brain") haven't gotten the proper re-release OR compilation they deserve. 2010 saw the release of her proper-debut album, Geidi Primes & her sophomore effort Halfaxa. Other than "Fifteen Minutes To," 2011's Darkbloom E.P, & some random Soundcloud stuff, it wasn't really until 2012's Visions release, her third album- an album recorded in just two weeks, in which Grimes took the world by storm. It's no surprise either.... Listen... when you have a song as good as "Oblivion," it's not like it was gonna' take long before the world took notice. The song received plenty of accolades including Pitchfork's "Best Song of the Year" title. With the world's eyes on her, Claire has only defined & bettered her sound & vision. Between the releases of her breakthrough  Visions & 2015's nearly-as-good Art Angels, she released one of my favorite songs of all time, "REALiTi (Demo)" which may be the best song about climbing since Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)." The music Grimes makes is other worldly: spacey, starry, galactic... This probably explains why she ended up being partners with Elon Musk & having their first born child named X Æ A-Xii. Grimes released Miss Anthropocene in 2020, which she declared as her last "earthly" album,. What's next up for Grimes- well- the galaxy's skies are the limit... It will all be fine...

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