Grimes — Miss Anthropocene (Feb. 21, 2020)
Born: Claire Elise Boucher, March 17, 1988, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Album release: February 21, 2020
Recorded: 2017~2019
Record Label: 4AD
Duration: 44:46+5:35+16:51 => 67:12
Tracks:
01 So Heavy I Fell Through the Earth (Art Mix) 6:08
02 Darkseid (Grimes & 潘PAN) 3:44
03 Delete Forever 3:58
04 Violence (Grimes & i_o) 3:41
05 4ÆM 4:31
06 New Gods 3:16
07 My Name is Dark 5:56
08 You’ll miss me when I’m not around 2:42
09 Before the fever 3:38
10 IDORU 7:12
Japanese CD edition bonus track:
11. We Appreciate Power (featuring Hana) 5:35
Deluxe digital version bonus tracks:
12. So Heavy I Fell Through the Earth (Algorithm Mix) 3:52
13. Violence (with i_o) (Club Mix) 4:12
14. My Name Is Dark (Algorithm Mix) 4:03
15. Idoru (Algorithm Mix) 4:46
♦ All tracks are written by Claire Boucher.
♦ Grimes — vocals, production, engineering
Review
by Madison Bloom and Jazz Monroe, NOVEMBER 15 2019
♦ Grimes is back with her first album in five years and third for 4AD. Miss Anthropocene features 10 tracks and has a release date of February 21, 2020. There are two versions of “So Heavy I Fell Through the Earth.” The “Art Mix” lasts six minutes, while the “Algorithm Mix,” essentially a radio edit, lasts just under four. “So Heavy” follows “Violence,” another single from the follow~up to 2015’s Art Angels. (The album title was previously styled Miss_ Anthrop0cene.)
♦ Claire Boucher has shared a lengthy message on Instagram detailing the record: “It’s a concept album about the anthropomorphic Goddess of climate Change: A psychedelic, space~dwelling demon/ beauty~Queen who relishes the end of the world. She’s composed of Ivory and Oil.
♦ I love Godly personifications of abstract/ horrific concepts (For example, Mars as the Roman God of War) — so I wanted to update the list to include our modern issues.
Each song will be a different embodiment of human extinction as depicted through a Pop star Demonology. The first song ‘we appreciate power’, introduced the pro~AI~propaganda girl group who embody our potential enslavement/destruction at the hands of Artificial General intelligence.”
♦ Previously released track ‘We Appreciate Power’ will not make it on the standard edition release of the album, but will instead be found on the deluxe digital version.
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Website: https://grimesmusic.com/
Discography:
♦ Geidi Primes (2010)
♦ Halfaxa (2010)
♦ Visions (2012)
♦ Art Angels (2015)
♦ Miss Anthropocene (2020)