Grimes Offers More Album Details, Says She Hates "Oblivion" and Other Singles

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Grimes, aka Claire Boucher, has recently been giving interviews about her new album, which she’s intending to release this fall. Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, she revealed more about the record, which she called “the first record that I’ve made that I can listen to with other people around and not cringe and feel horrified.” 

“I think I just finished it last night maybe, but I’m sick of it at this point,” she told EW.

Boucher said that while she wrote and performed all the music (except for samples from “Japanese compilations from the ’80s” on three songs), the album does have a few guest stars—such as Taiwanese rapper Aristophanes, whose collaboration was previously revealed in a Fader cover story.

She also said she’s considering putting a reworked version of “Realiti” on the record, even though she’s not a huge fan of it. (She also disavowed “Oblivion”, from 2012′s Visions.) “All the songs that are singles are all songs people have to force me to do,” she said. “I know that if I don’t like and everyone else likes it, then it’s probably a single. I always hate the songs that are the singles.”

She also told EW that on the album, she tried rapping in Dothraki, the fictional language from “Game of Thrones”, but it “didn’t work.” Also, the album contains “a bunch of [songs] from the perspective of a vampire mobster character, which I’m now concerned about because I’m realizing if people think the words are from my perspective, they might think I’m insane. It’s about crime and stuff.”

Additionally, Boucher said she’s “stuck” between the experimental and pop scenes, and that the album navigates that middle ground. “This album is two halves,” she said. “It’s very structured like that. If you’re going to complain about one-half, then you have the other half.”

Read the whole interview here.

Watch Grimes perform “Genesis” at the 2012 Pitchfork Music Festival:

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