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Grimes Describes New Work, Hates ‘Oblivion’

It’s been three years since ethereal pop princess Grimes released her self-professed hastily produced Visions, and we’re aching for a followup. “I made Visions in a couple weeks,” she told Entertainment Weekly, although it sounds like the work of a much longer process, experimental and glittery and dark and featuring Grimes’ typical child-like vocals blended with layered electronic soundscapes.

But her new work will see her move in a slightly different direction, with perhaps a more polished sound. “This is the first record I’ve made with an audience…this time the songs are kind of written,” she continues to EW. “You could theoretically play them all on the guitar or on the piano. In terms of the sound design, I got a lot better.”

This is refreshing news that comes of the back of Grimes’ announcement that she had ‘scrapped her album cuz it was depressing and I didn’t want to tour it.’

On the actual details of the album, Grimes has teased different alter egos, including “Screechy Bat…the metal one…and one that’s super vampish and sexy… like Ginger Spice.” Drawing from ’90s and nu-metal influences, she’s described tracks called Flesh Without Blood (a “staccato rocker”) and SCREAM.

Personally, we’re still hoping that the final cut of the very good REALiTi will make it onto the album, even though Grimes has expressed her distaste of her previous singles. “It’s a lazy song,” she says about REALiTi. “I hate Oblivion too. All the songs that are singles are songs people have to force me to do…I always hate the songs that are singles.”

If it’s any consolation, we thought Oblivion was absolutely bangers. Here’s hoping that her new work comes swiftly and delivers as much of a punch as Visions.