Claire Boucher a.k.a. Grimes
Claire Boucher, better known by her
stage name Grimes, a reference to the artist Ken Grimes, is a Canadian electronic musician, artist and music video director.
Born and raised in Vancouver, she started writing and recording songs while in college, which made her miss a great number of classes and ended up with her being expelled from her university. Not so bad, as now she could dedicate herself to be a full-time musician, collaborating with various DJ s such as Majical Cloudz, making an EP with musician d'Eon and opening shows to singer Lykke Li.
Grimes musical style is mostly electronic and experimental, though it ranges
a lot.
Discography so far:
Albums:- Geidi Primes (2010)
- Halfaxa (2010)
- Visions (2012)
Extended Plays:- Darkbloom (2011, in collaboration with musician d'Eon)
Grimes and her music contains examples of:
- Dye Hard: Already dyed her hair with colors such as pink and blue.
- Echoing Acoustics: Reverb is pretty much everywhere, but notably used in Genesis and Skin.
- Heart Symbol: Infinite ❤ Without Fulfillment.
- Lyrical Dissonance: A great deal of songs in the Visions album, including the opening track Infinite ❤ Without Fulfillment, Genesis, Oblivion, among others.
- Neo Classical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly: As newspaper The Guardian summarized, "By sounding a little like everything you've ever heard, the whole sounds like nothing you've ever heard". Grimes herself describes her style as "ADD musics".
- Older Than They Look: She is currently 24 years old, but honestly looks way younger.
- One of Us: She has listed as her influences works such as Lars von Trier, David Lynch, Harry Potter, AKIRA, Ninja Scroll, The Lord of the Rings, The Master and Margarita, and Korean Pop Music.
- One Woman Song: Vanessa.
- Self-Backing Vocalist: Pretty much all of the backing vocals are just layers of her own vocals.
- Berserk Button: In a recent blog post
she not only lashed out on people sexualizing her and referring to her as "cute" or "waif-like", she even went as far as to cancel the remainder of her world tour due to being royally pissed off by that behavior.
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