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- In Art Angels Grimes has taken liberties to explore the many sides of herself she wishes to elucidate unlike in Visions where she mainly stayed in the same lane. Therefore, despite flaws, Art Angels is a promise to a future of improved music and greater authenticity. Claire has simply scratched the surface.
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Art Angels is Claire Boucher's fourth record as Grimes and her most audacious yet: a gilded coffin nail to outmoded arguments that women in pop are mere frames for male producers' talents.
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Nov 9, 2015 · Art Angels reveals itself to be an idiosyncratic pop album – replete with cheery hooks, blithe melodies, K-pop nods, 80s sounds, guitars, and much greater structure, where before Grimes...
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Oct 20, 2015 · Here’s her mountain. Art Angels is a marvel of meticulous, even obsessive home-studio recording, uncompromised by bandmates or collaborators. With her fourth album, Claire Boucher has escalated from mischievous EDM to open taunts, and a few people must feel their ears burning.
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Dec 11, 2015 · Crackling with radio-primed hooks, whipsnap breakbeats and Boucher’s helium-pitched vocals, Grimes’ third album makes a convincing strike for playlist ubiquity, with a healthy dollop of the oddball chucked in.
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Nov 12, 2015 · On her 2012 breakthrough, Visions, singer-producer Claire Boucher (a.k.a. Grimes) was an indie-rock fan’s platonic ideal of a pop star – blurring moody electro and moodier R&B in music that ...
- Jon Dolan
Nov 16, 2015 · The new Grimes album is a statement reflective of herself, and does not waver from her strengths. In fact she has built upon them, and showed that she is capable of weaving together a killer album with cool shit from out of nowhere.
Nov 12, 2015 · On Art Angels, she speaks via a plethora of identities and from an array of celestial bodies – the angel, the beast, the alien, all atomising in the use of her voice. The familiar, lambent lisp of her vocal is exchanged here for bold melodic runs, soulful unctuous tonalities, brazen snarl and a brattish, cartoon squeal.