Art Angels

by Grimes

This is such a collage of an album, not song-to-song but beat-to-beat. Grimes had a great sense of what worked within a pop framework and really wielded it like a weapon throughout this album. Every hook, beat, and texture sounds like you’ve probably heard it before but you would never be able to place its origin. The way she smashes together layered vocals, synths, guitar tones, drum programming, sub bass, and all kinds of effects really works in a way that never feels incoherent or inconsistent. She’s as much as a producer as she is a songwriter and it shows.

Honestly, there hasn’t been an album that’s really sounded like this before or since its release.… More