Visions
Recorded over three weeks in a darkened room, the third album from Canadian singer/producer Grimes, a.k.a. Claire Boucher, packs an idiosyncratic punch. At once grating and soothing, melodic and dissonant, *Visions* manages to sound like a pop record above all else, with contorted melodies that seep into your brain. Boucher tangles up her eerie falsetto with crackling beats and pinging synths, resulting in a gnarled amalgam of textures—electro-pop rendered as splatter art. It\'s fascinating and wholly original all the way through.
Grimes is the one-woman cyborg-pop project of Montreal's Claire Boucher. Visions, her compulsively listenable third album, is an electro cotton-candy entryway to her peculiar kind of bliss.
Claire Boucher works across many media. In addition to making music, the restless producer and mesmeric voice behind Grimes is an artist (she makes her own album covers), a filmmaker (she directs her own music videos), and a dancer (she choreographs them). Her most ambitious project, though, may be herself. Over a…
An album of shifting, shimmering textures that is both a spaced out exploration and the perfect pop album.
“I would say this is my psychedelic new jack swing IDM album,” says Claire Boucher without a trace of irony. She’s not too far off the mark either, considering the righteous grit and swagger of Eight and Circumambient – two tracks that underline just how far the young producer has come in a little over two years.
Claire Boucher, the sole-proprietor of Grimes, is billing Visions as her first “real” album—coming a year after a few extraneous curiosities and flashes of interest.
<p>A sweet, savvy and scary offering from one of the growing number of female electronic artists, writes <strong>Kitty Empire</strong></p>
<p>Claire Boucher's third record as Grimes, but her first to get a large-scale release, is smart, funny and eccentric, writes <strong>Rebecca Nicholson</strong></p>
Grimes - Visions review: Spacey, hypnotic parallel-universe pop, and so much more.
Montreal sonic experimentalist with her lushest long-player yet. CD review by Thomas H Green