I can't relax when there's an unexpected release sometime in October
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 26 May 2015 03:27 (nine years ago) link
Just try to relax, and the release will happen. Happens to everyone sometime.
― MatthewK, Tuesday, 26 May 2015 12:33 (nine years ago) link
http://www.thefader.com/2015/07/28/grimes-cover-story-interview
― carly bae jepsen (monotony), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 01:14 (nine years ago) link
its always interesting to me abt creative ppl having to like remember to eat
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 14:13 (nine years ago) link
i listen to REALiTi p much every day
― johnny crunch, Friday, May 15, 2015 11:54 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I still do btw
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 14:14 (nine years ago) link
i struggle to remember to eat but i suck at shit compared to grimes :'D
and yeah just listened to "realiti" today, and last week (it's p much the ultimate rainy humid asian summer song), i think i said upthread something along the lines of it being the most replayable thing i've heard this year and i'm also standing by that vibe
― soyrev, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 16:23 (nine years ago) link
I want to watch Star Wars w Grimes.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 16:39 (nine years ago) link
Grimes' mom, @Garossino is a good person to follow on Twitter, especially if you live in Vancouver (she's the editor of a progressive political news website) (in which Grimes makes the occasional cameo).
― everything, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 17:21 (nine years ago) link
She is a genius
― Treeship, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 17:48 (nine years ago) link
can't wait for the “diss track about male producers”
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 18:51 (nine years ago) link
REALiTi making it to Starbucks playlist but still no release?
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 20:24 (nine years ago) link
I typed something for a dumb survey at the end of 2013 about Grimes that I was really proud of that I'd like to post if you'd indulge me!
Q: Did you take part in the ice bucket challenge? If not, why not? Grimes declined due to animal testing issues, was the grief she got for that deserved?
Do you think people deserve grief? Do you give people grief when they deserve it? I hope to relieve people of their grief. For a long time I had this theory: the impossibility of a female Kurt Cobain. What he represents, leaning against the system and yet supported by consumers, there was no woman in the world that could command the masses so utterly. The music industry, the male-biased music consuming populace wouldn't let her. This thing I've been stewing about since I saw Grimes play to 20 people in 2011, and started reading her Tumblr, and then really starting feeling when "Oblivion" came out, is that Claire is the closest thing we have to a female Kurt Cobain, smart enough to understand the system but righteous enough to wall-jump away from it. But also, interestingly, what an inversion her approach is to Kurt's. His pose was anti-establishment, her pose is post-structural. He was rigorous, she is always looking outward, game for genre-experimentation and hilarity. I feel like even if I don't like her music, and I do so far, I will always feel like she's several steps ahead of me, several books ahead of me, and that makes me feel really fucking good. Anyone who gives her grief about anything can kick rocks.
― got a long list of ilxors (fgti), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 22:19 (nine years ago) link
nice
a friend of mine subletted her room when she moved out of montreal, she told me some girl named claire had lived there before and made music in the room, but i only found out later it was *that* claire, and only found out while reading that fader interview just now that she recorded visions in it. it was a super small, no window bedroom in a p nast mile-ex apartment on parc
― flopson, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 22:30 (nine years ago) link
not a crucial thread detour but: i thought mile ex was way east of parc
& fgti otmthe scale on which she practices the genre-experimentation-&-hilarity thing is really inspirational
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 22:53 (nine years ago) link
way east of parc? mile ex is the interzone between mile end and parc ex. north of bernard south of jean talon, from like parc to clark
― flopson, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 23:54 (nine years ago) link
ohh right, right. i think i was thinking of parc ex. thank you.
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Thursday, 30 July 2015 00:00 (nine years ago) link
yr welcome but uh parc ex is west of parc (& north of beaumont) ;-) lol
― flopson, Thursday, 30 July 2015 00:06 (nine years ago) link
how about a thread for every time you listen to realiti and it's awesome? currently listening, it's awesome!
― niels, Monday, 10 August 2015 16:33 (nine years ago) link
otm
― five six and (man alive), Monday, 10 August 2015 16:36 (nine years ago) link
How bout a thread for when there's a pre-order available. The suspense is killing me.
― how's life, Monday, 10 August 2015 16:54 (nine years ago) link
I know it's not as simple as this makes it sound, but it amazes me that this is among the scrapped material. The part where it plunged into and back out of an underground tunnel is just a+++
― Tim F, Monday, 10 August 2015 21:56 (nine years ago) link
technicality but mile ex is north of the van horne viaduc, not bernard. that part is still officialy plateau (and thus the mile end).
also Realiti is still great.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 10 August 2015 22:14 (nine years ago) link
Technicaliti
― Tim F, Monday, 10 August 2015 22:21 (nine years ago) link
i'm still listening to realiti most days (twice today) and it's still great. (and yeah, pretty wild that it's something she seemingly just threw out into the world as a no-expectation stopgap)
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 10 August 2015 22:25 (nine years ago) link
― Tim F, Monday, August 10, 2015 6:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Every morning there are viaducs to climb
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 15:08 (nine years ago) link
realiti
bump
― 1994 ball boy (Karl Malone), Saturday, 22 August 2015 17:24 (nine years ago) link
Interview in Entertainment Weekly?
http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/26/grimes-new-album?hootPostID=be69b17bf649648291acf17c872a52dc
― how's life, Thursday, 27 August 2015 16:48 (nine years ago) link
Realiti has become my go-to workout booster when my energy starts to sag. Every morning there are mountains to climb.
― five six and (man alive), Thursday, 27 August 2015 16:51 (nine years ago) link
By popular demand, I did try to remake “Realiti” and it is really good now. I’m considering putting it on the record. I had to re-produce it for the live show anyway. I don’t like “Realiti,” but everybody else does. I may put it on by popular demand, I don’t know.
Wonder if that song could possibly be improved upon
― niels, Thursday, 27 August 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link
srsly
― five six and (man alive), Thursday, 27 August 2015 17:05 (nine years ago) link
I don’t like “Realiti,”
she seems to like it in the video!
― 1994 ball boy (Karl Malone), Thursday, 27 August 2015 17:08 (nine years ago) link
she shouldn't put it on the record if she doesn't like it though
just make your perfect grimesz record, fuck the fans!
i'm assuming she reads my posts
― 1994 ball boy (Karl Malone), Thursday, 27 August 2015 17:09 (nine years ago) link
agreed
― welltris (crüt), Thursday, 27 August 2015 17:16 (nine years ago) link
yeah i think it was perfect, curious to hear the remake if she prefers it but maybe as a b-side? i'd prefer her not to compromise for us, too
― soyrev, Thursday, 27 August 2015 17:17 (nine years ago) link
One of the strangest things to me is her earlier comments that it didn't *sound* that good, as though it were some patchy demo and not the sonic marvel that it is.
― five six and (man alive), Thursday, 27 August 2015 17:28 (nine years ago) link
I fear we're setting ourselves up to be disappointed by the album. Perhaps what we liked about Grimes is precisely what she's trying to overcome.
― cryptic 'failure of bread' (Sanpaku), Thursday, 27 August 2015 21:04 (nine years ago) link
I think she's trolling hard.
― how's life, Thursday, 27 August 2015 21:06 (nine years ago) link
#trustgrimes
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Friday, 28 August 2015 13:57 (nine years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/news/61184-grimes-announces-rhinestone-cowgirls-tour/
― how's life, Monday, 14 September 2015 13:59 (nine years ago) link
very excited to finally see The Grimes
― flappy bird, Saturday, 19 September 2015 15:16 (nine years ago) link
https://instagram.com/p/7zmS38jfre/?taken-by=actuallygrimes
― flappy bird, Saturday, 19 September 2015 15:17 (nine years ago) link
heads up, Europe
http://pitchfork.com/news/61489-grimes-announces-acd-reign-european-tour/
― how's life, Monday, 5 October 2015 14:39 (eight years ago) link
is she good live? will realiti be even better?
― niels, Monday, 5 October 2015 14:41 (eight years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/09/28/pop-for-misfits
― gr8080, Wednesday, 7 October 2015 15:40 (eight years ago) link
album any day now, right? can't wait to see her next month
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 7 October 2015 18:21 (eight years ago) link
“I like building expectations, and then stressing people out by explicitly not doing the thing,”
imo album comes out next year
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 18:26 (eight years ago) link
Last time she mentioned anything, it was supposed to be a surprise drop in October, right?
― how's life, Wednesday, 7 October 2015 18:27 (eight years ago) link
xp lol
i think it'll come out this month, or right before her tour next month. she posted a photo on her instagram a couple weeks ago of the ASCAP or BMI registry credits, so it's in the can
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 7 October 2015 18:37 (eight years ago) link