6. Grimes Visions
First coming to light in 2010 with her debut album
Geidi Primes, and second album
Halfaxa, 2012 saw the release of her third album
Visions. Accompanying that release, this year also saw the making of
Grimes. No longer an unknown oddity, this year
Grimes became a fully grown entity as her own brand of synth pop (somewhere between darkwave, goth and experimental electronica) was taken to heart by music critics and fans alike. Wrap this up in
Grimes(
Claire Boucher)s unique/odd sense of style and her quirky personality and you have the full package.
Visions is an album that somehow manages to be simultaneously retro, current and futuristic and as a result is incredibly original. Besides being a brilliant album it also raises questions of where
Grimes might go from here as the album dances between unadulterated, if warped, pop music and experimental ambiguity. Questions definitely worth waiting for the answers for, though in the mean time
Visions does everything it needs to.
Key tracks Infinite Love Without Fulfilment, Oblivion, Eight, Be a Body http://youtu.be/JtH68PJIQLE