Today, Grimes releases her new album, Art Angels, through 4AD. Spotify users can stream it in full below. It’s also available through Apple Music.
The 15-track effort marks Claire Boucher’s fourth to date following 2012’s Visions. The result of months of writing and studio time, Art Angels only came to fruition after Boucher had scrapped an entire collection of songs.
One song on the album, called “Kill V Maim”, is written from the perspective of Al Pacino in The Godfather Pt 2. “Except he’s a vampire who can switch gender and travel through space,” she told Q.
Elsewhere on the album, according to an interview with Dazed and Confused, is a song “from the perspective of a butterfly in the Amazon as people are cutting down trees; there’s a song that’s from the perspective of angels who are polluted, so they’re crying polluted tears.”
Art Angels is preceded by the songs “Flesh Without Blood”, “Life in the Vivid Dream”, “REALiTi”, “SCREAM”, and “laughing and not being normal”.
Purchase the album here.
Art Angels Tracklist:
01. laughing and not being normal
02. California
03. SCREAM (feat. Aristophanes)
04. Flesh without Blood
05. Belly of the Beat
06. Kill V. Maim
07. Artangels
08. Easily
09. Pin
10. Realiti ^
11. World Princess part II
12. Venus Fly (feat. Janelle Monáe)
13. Life in the Vivid Dream
14. Butterfly
15. Realiti (Demo) *
^ = CD and digital only
* = CD only
