Visions

by Grimes

Visions cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 21 February 2012
  • Label: 4AD
  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 46:52
  • Community rating: 3.72/5 from 23 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded entirely on GarageBand during a sleepless three-week period, 'Visions' is a breakthrough work of DIY electronic pop. Grimes (Claire Boucher) combines ethereal vocals, industrial rhythms, and catchy synth hooks to create a sound that is alien yet accessible. The album captures a unique, futuristic aesthetic that bridges the gap between underground experimentalism and mainstream pop appeal.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, atmospheric, synth, dreamy, electronic

Tracklist

  1. Infinite Love without Fulfilment (01:35)
  2. Genesis (04:15)
  3. Oblivion (04:11)
  4. Eight (01:47)
  5. Circumambient (03:43)
  6. Vowels = space and time (04:21)
  7. Visiting Statue (01:58)
  8. Be a Body (04:20)
  9. Colour of Moonlight (Antiochus) (03:59)
  10. Symphonia IX (My Wait Is U) (04:52)
  11. Nightmusic (03:58)
  12. Skin (06:09)
  13. Know the Way (01:44)

Credits

  • Mark Khair - design [alien head designed by]
  • Christian Wright - lacquer cut by
  • Jasper Baydala - layout
  • Sebastian Cowan - mixed by, mastered by
  • Grimes - producer
  • 袗薪薪邪 袗褏屑邪褌芯胁邪 - words by [poetry]

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