Montreal artist Grimes today announced that she will be releasing a new album entitled Art Angels next week. Grimes, whose real name is Claire Boucher, made the announcement on her Twitter feed and other social media accounts, posting album artwork that she designed herself earlier today (Oct. 19). Grimes had previously said her new album would be released in October, but no release date had been announced.
The road to the release of Grimes' upcoming album has been a long one, with the singer publicly announcing she scrapped a whole album that she had been working on after releasing 'Go,' the single she initially penned for Rihanna last year.
Information about Grimes' follow-up album to her critically acclaimed breakthrough 2012 album, Visions, has been gradually leaking out as the singer approaches an upcoming North American tour due to start in California on Oct. 24.
According to NME.com, in the November issue of Q Magazine, Grimes recorded much of the album in B.C.
"I wanted to get away from Hollywood bullshit," she says. "So I moved to Squamish, a small town in British Colombia. There was a lot of 'crazy' going on, but it was organised 'crazy' — like lying in the dark and seeing if I could hallucinate."
Grimes also revealed a set of unlikely inspirations for the album including Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel and gangster movies like The Godfather.
by Del F. Cowie via Electronic RSS
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