Art Angels
by Grimes
  • Record Label: 4AD
  • Release Date: Dec 11, 2015
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  3. Negative: 52 out of 996
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  1. qwerewolf
    Nov 9, 2015
    1
    I envy someone who can offer this artist praise and support on a personal level. Given that privilege, I would probably lie and do exactly that upon hearing Art Angels. Instead I have numbers and obscurity. Aside from "World Princess Part II," listening this album makes me feel small indeed. "Fan alienation" is moot -- there's no exchange between these realities. I'm in the demo camp.
  2. AndTeslu
    Nov 9, 2015
    10
    O álbum é realmente muito bom. Traz o que já conhecemos da Grimes ao mesmo tempo em que nos mostra um cenário totalmente novo. Ela quebrou as barreiras do que todos achavam que ela era capaz de fazer para criar um álbum que ao mesmo tempo que é pop, também remonta ao estranho que está presente em toda sua carreira. Como ela deixa claro em sua composição, não é um álbum que qualquer um vaiO álbum é realmente muito bom. Traz o que já conhecemos da Grimes ao mesmo tempo em que nos mostra um cenário totalmente novo. Ela quebrou as barreiras do que todos achavam que ela era capaz de fazer para criar um álbum que ao mesmo tempo que é pop, também remonta ao estranho que está presente em toda sua carreira. Como ela deixa claro em sua composição, não é um álbum que qualquer um vai ouvir e gostar se você está acostumado com Halfaxa e Visions, você tem que abrir sua mente antes de ouvi-lo. Se você gosta de uma garotinha sonhadora, triste que produz música estranha que ninguém vai querer ouvir, bem, Art Angels não é pra você. É uma verdadeira revolução no que a Grimes faz, e sem dúvida um grande evolução como artista. Ah, sem contar que ele foi escrito quase em totalidade por ela e conta com a primeira faixa que ela produziu completamente sozinha, Scream. Palmas pra Grimes, ela realmente merece.… Expand
  3. erimelro
    Nov 9, 2015
    10
    Um álbum inteligente que é super pop e super alternativo ao mesmo tempo. Com tantas referências advindas do som experimental, punk rock, K-Pop, country, video games, mangás, entre outros, Grimes consegue entregar um álbum complexo e profundo recheado de emoção, eufórico e melancólico, com faixas cheias de camadas de instrumentos e voz. Ah, e ela fez isso tudo sozinha!
  4. MorningLiang
    Nov 9, 2015
    10
    This album is absolutely one of the best in this decade. You can really hear how Grimes care about her music. I cannot imagine how much efforts she put in making this album so good. It's mature but fun: crazy but in the control; smart and so sexy. The details are so subtle and so powerful. I am so glad to have her in the music industry today.
  5. RiotFish
    Nov 8, 2015
    3
    Don't get me wrong, I love Grimes just as much as the next guy. Visions was a well-nuanced, sophisticated electro-pop record that stands among the best of the new millennium. After hearing rumors that Clair Boucher may be making a mainstream pop record after the release of her single "Go"--rumors that were eventually proven false--I really didn't shrug a shoulder.

    That is, I really    Don't get me wrong, I love Grimes just as much as the next guy. Visions was a well-nuanced, sophisticated electro-pop record that stands among the best of the new millennium. After hearing rumors that Clair Boucher may be making a mainstream pop record after the release of her single "Go"--rumors that were eventually proven false--I really didn't shrug a shoulder.

    That is, I really didn't care if she took her music in a more accessible, radio-friendly direction or if she just continued plumbing the depths of witch-pop weirdness.

    On first listen, this is a mind-boggling record, for the simple fact that at alternating times it sounds like a mainstream pop record and at others--well, like the quirky synth stuff we'd expect from Grimes. The irresistibly catchy clap-along "California" is followed by "SCREAM," a song in which Clair doesn't really sing but just breathes really hard to a sinister bass-line and, at the end, incorporates what sounds like a synthesizer performing an actual human scream. It's like FKA Twigs and Death Grips decided to team up, I suppose.

    The record maintains its inconsistency throughout, throwing radio-friendly pop songs at us and glitchy, oddly-textured electronic numbers in between. Which is NOT a bad thing, in and of itself. What makes this record fail, however, is its failure to pursue its equal sides of weirdness and accessibility to their extremes. What we're left with is a mishmash of 14 songs we want to call "brilliant" as a whole because there's so much to digest it seems impossible to diagnose on first listen--but is instead composed of songs that really don't sound one way or the other; there are needless sound FX and utterly masturbatory arcade-ish electronic blips thrown into the accessible tracks just to give them 'experimental cred' and there are moments of weirdness that just don't go anywhere interesting.

    Furthermore, most of the accessible tracks on the album don't even feature very unique melodies (which is something Visions had). Songs like "Flesh and Blood" and "Reality" just leave me thinking, 'hey, that melody sounds familiar, where did I hear that?' because the choruses, despite being very layered and complicated and using lots of fade-in fade-out techniques--really don't have substantial melodies buried within them; they just have a LOT of sounds going on to give you the illusion there's something more there.

    Overall, it just doesn't seem like Art Angels knows its identity; it straddles a weird line between accessibility and weirdness in a way that doesn't really seem to embrace either extreme and just ends up sounding like overtly maximal, sugar-coated indie-pop at the end of the day.    … Expand
  6. longjetty7
    Nov 8, 2015
    9
    Art Angels is really the antithesis of Visions. Whereas Visions was very one dimensional, introverted, and other worldly, Art Angels is rather eclectic, energetic, and more grounded in reality. I think both albums are great, but the fact that they're so different shows just how versatile of a musician Grimes is. With Art Angels she's really outdone herself in pretty much every wayArt Angels is really the antithesis of Visions. Whereas Visions was very one dimensional, introverted, and other worldly, Art Angels is rather eclectic, energetic, and more grounded in reality. I think both albums are great, but the fact that they're so different shows just how versatile of a musician Grimes is. With Art Angels she's really outdone herself in pretty much every way possible: songwriting, vocal delivery, instrumentals, production... It's all extremely well executed, and what's even more impressive is that she made this entire album by herself! I can't think of many solo artists who are able to pull off an album as good as this entirely on their own.

    The standout tracks in my opinion are Flesh Without Blood, Kill V. Maim (The absolute best song I've heard this year. Seriously, it's incredible.), Realiti (obviously), and Venus Fly. Usually albums with 14 songs have a lot of filler, but for the most part the songs are very memorable and all have their own distinct character. And even though there a bunch of different styles, it flows together well and makes for a very cohesive and extremely engaging album.    … Expand
  7. jacobryan14
    Nov 8, 2015
    10
    Different to any other music at the moment, every song sounds different and each song has a deeper meaning and is possibly the best album in her discography! The album goes in a more pop direction rather than the experimental music she has been making in the past
  8. nikola_koda
    Nov 8, 2015
    10
    I love completely 14 tracks that are in the album, is very different to her other albums, but is ok, is good and is an albums that sounds very happy :D
  9. juanca
    Nov 8, 2015
    10
    Is very different to Visions and her other artworks, but is very cool, magic and I love all of the songs. I really Love Halfaxa, Geidi Primes and Visions but this is so glorious.
  10. sebastianglz
    Nov 8, 2015
    10
    Compared from its previous work, "Visions", this album is less dark and more funny and happy, it doesn't loose Grimes' weird sound and lyrics. This is an amazing record, especially if you're ashamed of listening to the bad produced top 40 songs, because "Art Angels" is absolutely well produced.
  11. forcis12
    Nov 8, 2015
    9
    I am new to this genre of pop music. I accidentally stumbled upon Grimes a couple of years ago and I can't get enough. This album is pure Grimes. There are a few killer tracks that I will probably listen ad nauseum. The sheer amount of effort and thought put in to this album is worth the purchase. It still blows my mind Grimes is a solo endeavor.
  12. asjklasjklas
    Nov 8, 2015
    8
    Claire Boucher AKA Grimes has enough idiosyncrasies to consider even her most musically polished, poppy, and, dare I say, feminine music to date unconventional by any musical standards, as her hotly anticipated Art Angels completely diminishes every single ethereal, experimental 'bedroom'-esque quality inhabited on her earlier releases in favor of a straightforward and streamlined soundClaire Boucher AKA Grimes has enough idiosyncrasies to consider even her most musically polished, poppy, and, dare I say, feminine music to date unconventional by any musical standards, as her hotly anticipated Art Angels completely diminishes every single ethereal, experimental 'bedroom'-esque quality inhabited on her earlier releases in favor of a straightforward and streamlined sound reminescent of J-pop, pop rock, power pop, and contemporary pop music from the early '00s. And while it's mostly a success on Boucher's end of the table, maintaining an accessible yet alien approach throughout, Art Angels also doesn't have any surprises similar on scale to 2012's Visions and certain tracks almost anonymize both her production and vocals, which can be largely dependent on that seemingly signature weirdness Boucher has been acclaimed for since the beginning.

    The carefree country music twang of "California", Taiwanese rapper Aristophanes's bubbly, cutesy Mandarin Chinese raps vs. Grimes' growly screams on "Scream", Grimes' continued screams and addictive K-pop flavored chorus of "Kill v. Maim", or Janelle Monáe turning grrrl power up to over 9,000 on the abrasive "Venus Fly"—Grimes obviously hasn't allowed Art Angels to fully submerge into the sugary sweet tropes that commonly overpopulate such a commercial genre. Then again, it's not safe to say that about all of it: "REALiTi", which receives one of the most unwarranted, unwanted, and unnecessary remakes of 2015, was already a near-perfect pop song and is an example of how Boucher's capable of rendering her uniqueness virtually mute on certain tracks on Art Angels.

    The disappointment in the abandonment of the experimental electronic soundscapes cascading on her earlier releases could've been compensated for had Boucher's many opportunistic quotes regarding Art Angels—how Visions and her lead singles are substantially less creative, how one song is supposed to be about a gender-bending space traveller Al Pacino, and that the album was full of diss tracks, none of which are noticeably true yet—only to raise expectations to a criminally lower degree of fulfillment. The overall outcome can't be correctly calculated because it'll assumingly divide her target demographic; it's an immediately effective pop album that still starkly contrasts the pop of today and yet it completely dumbs itself down when you compare it to her earlier releases and realize they too similarly had that effect, only on music altogether. I imagine that's an admittedly stubborn critique and Art Angels may gradually grow on me within the next few months or maybe even days, but it's one I can confidently cast out for now.

    Overall rating: 7.7    … Expand
  13. fabricioedwward
    Nov 7, 2015
    10
    Melhor álbum alternativo do ano!! O som soa como algo que nunca ouvi musicalmente falando.. Grimes sempre vem inovando com seus álbuns cada vez mais. Fico feliz em ver que veio um trabalho um pouco diferente do VISIONS.
  14. Brunswicker
    Nov 7, 2015
    9
    The first time I knew about Grimes was when her 'Visions' came out. I found it way ahead of its time, very gloomy and mysterious, every track was structured in a innovative way, but the most characteristic thing about it was the ethereal-chorus-like vocals on it, defining her style at the time.
    As anyone, I thought 'Visions' was a masterpiece and it was going to be hard to Grimes to make    The first time I knew about Grimes was when her 'Visions' came out. I found it way ahead of its time, very gloomy and mysterious, every track was structured in a innovative way, but the most characteristic thing about it was the ethereal-chorus-like vocals on it, defining her style at the time.
    As anyone, I thought 'Visions' was a masterpiece and it was going to be hard to Grimes to make something better, because the album was so unique, making me think "Hey, maybe it was just luck".
    And my suspicions were turning more predictable with her posterior releases *hum* Go, this dubstep-EDM-trap-like Rihanna's rejected song, making everyone believe Grimes went mainstream, even when she scrapped her album due to the reaction of critics and fans, even if she negates that (thing she did.)
    And after some forgettable things, she released 'REALiTi', a demo which made everyone to have faith again in her. And then Grimes was more active than ever, saying that her new album was more playable, that was the first that did not made her cringe at hearing it, that it was more happier and angrier, and that she was reconsidering in putting 'REALiTi' in this album.
    And here we are, 'Art Angels' is a thing.
    When she premiered 'Flesh Without Blood', I didn't think the fans reactions would've been so separated. To me? It is a banger. Maybe one of the best pop-rock teen-like songs I have ever heard, say what the people say. The difference between this and 'Go' is that this song is actually organic and has life in ir. It's just a fun song.
    And, for old fan's sake (I believe), 'SCREAM' was released. And that was all. I was 100% to her new thing, her new style, though there were just, like, 3 songs (including that 1-minute song).
    And, hell yeah, I was right. 'Art Angels' is the bomb. It is, ugh, flawless (almost everything). It has this J-Pop meets russian orchestras meets punk meets baby voice vibes. The songs 'Kill V. Maim', 'Pin', 'World Princess, Pt. II', 'Venus Fly' and 'Butterfly' ( this track is a fave) confirmed that Grimes is capable to re-invent herself doing a bold-enjoyable alt-pop without giving a **** about whatever anyone will say about her (just look some Reddit posts). Nothing about to say about her new album. It seems that Grimes is evolving as a whole, and here's here to ****ing stay.    … Expand
  15. diegonelli
    Nov 7, 2015
    10
    YAAAAS GRIMES QUEEEENNN i waited 2 long 4 this album and its fantastic i loved every fukkin song specially kill v maim - realiti's album version - world princess pt II - butterfly. they all fantastic, i loved how grimes tried new sounds and new style, she progressed as an artist, grime's the queen of electronic
  16. jtx
    Nov 7, 2015
    7
    Grimes' new album isn't excellent, it's a step back from Visions and her albums before that. This is not because it is poppy, it's because the heart and soul of her previous music was intertwined with raw weirdness. Instead of spontaneous creativity and surprises we get a collection of very structured, meticulously produced pop singles.

    This should not be heralded because she's now a    Grimes' new album isn't excellent, it's a step back from Visions and her albums before that. This is not because it is poppy, it's because the heart and soul of her previous music was intertwined with raw weirdness. Instead of spontaneous creativity and surprises we get a collection of very structured, meticulously produced pop singles.

    This should not be heralded because she's now a "Pop Goddess" because she already was 4 years ago. Nor because this is clean, catchy, polished, and perfectly tweaked and written, or as many said earlier, similar to Carly Rae Jepsen. It's a great album, but it's not her best nor one of the best of the year. She has so much more potential.    … Expand
  17. yurialcantara
    Nov 7, 2015
    9
    After her transcending breakout album 'Visions' back in 2012, Boucher has been talking to a whole internet generation whose interests are pretty much represented by her music, which incorporates both the underground and the mainstream, and seems to be following a progressive path into pop music, taking steps that shows her growing ambition, and 'Art Angels' is Grimes' ultimateAfter her transcending breakout album 'Visions' back in 2012, Boucher has been talking to a whole internet generation whose interests are pretty much represented by her music, which incorporates both the underground and the mainstream, and seems to be following a progressive path into pop music, taking steps that shows her growing ambition, and 'Art Angels' is Grimes' ultimate acknowledgement embracing it.
    Claire Boucher is one of a kind. She is dedicating herself to the fullest into her art, writing, producing, and playing every single instrument on this record, she also designs her album covers and coreograph her performances. 'Art Angels', plays both sides as a proper album and as a tool to not only the female empowerment itself, but specifically as a self-empowerment of the persona Grimes.
    This record is filled from top to bottom with colorful and happy vocals and lyrics. It is kind of a girlish album, but i still doubt about saying it when i look at its cover and the gender ambiguity of the angelical-alien characters that it portraits. I can't see a male or a female, but the intersection of both. A genderless state of being. So it would be wrong to affirm that this is a feminine record. But despite of it, the 'girlish' lyrics becomes the exact spot where the most defiant aspects of this record resides, and that is what makes it such a mighty self-empowering statement that borders the political.
    This record offers an extremely wide variety of sounds. There are sounds for every tastes, and made from anything. You can easily find a hand-clapping or an anime-manga sound effect, some piano pop notes, a mesmerizing line of beats and a surreal electronic atmosphere created by guitar strings that sounds like lasers.
    One of the biggest characteristics of Grimes is her ability to morph her vocals, and on 'Art Angels', Grimes' vocals are totally explored and stripped out, going from kawaii-ish falsettos to guttural screams, like in the tracks 'Kill V Maim' and 'SCREAM', to be specific. This last one features taiwanese rapper Aristophanes. On 'Visions', her vocals were often shyly hidden behind tons of sharp electronic beats, but now, they are clearly in charge, leaving a trace of artistic boldness that prints this whole album.
    The sharply refined production is one of the best things about this record. Is very clear how it sounds fresh, solid and polishly noisy, a pleasant and subtle dullness that would not fit 'Visions', technically speaking. The whole mixing process and blending together all these sounds, must not have been easy, and when you think about it, its even more impressive. The lead single 'Flesh Without Blood' is a great example of that: its a piece of pop vocals immerse in an electronic background but the beat is determined by massive drums and guitars, something Grimes has never done before.
    What really makes 'Art Angels' stand out from Grimes' previous albums is that the electronic layers of the songs are almost all behind this new and fresh pop appeal made from strings and drums. Its a new structure in which the songs are built in. The self-titled song 'Art Angels' exemplifies it when a ghostly choir vocal echoes under such a delightful pop arrangment that reminds a lot of Bleachers' soundscapes.
    The electronic elements starts to rise slowly from the gorgeous pop ballad 'Easily', which contains a very catchy mellow solo of synths, and in the finished version of 'Realiti', that became kind of a surprise, given the clear difference from the demo to the album version, specially the vocals, that were slightly modified to fit the child-ish main character of the record, and a more electro-synthpop arrangement gives it a rythym that flows softly into an invitation to dance, and you cant resist it. Although both versions are equally great, the demo may steal the spotlights a bit for sounding way too refined to be just a demo Grimes recorded.
    What a delightful surprise was to know that Janelle Monáe would be collaborating on the track 'Venus Fly'. It is likely to be the warm-up to the climax of this record, that stands somewhere between this, to the triumphant closing track 'Butterfly'. Grimes shows us the depth of her being like she has never done in any record, and she does it with a high-tempo happy pop beat with sugar on the top of it. Its sleek and efervescent joy creates a cage of electronic synth-pop beats in which you should totally wrap yourself in and dance until death.
    'Art Angels' is Grimes' most democratic record to date, its variety of songs allows that anyone can find at least one song that they might love. She undeniably went pop, but she did it without losing her main essence, and enabled the listener to go inside of her head, flirt with her emotions, fears and strengths, and stating that she is in the total fullness of her girlish blooming.    … Expand
  18. samusabino
    Nov 7, 2015
    10
    Este é álbum é simplesmente maravilhoso, um grande avanço na carreira da Grimes.
    Não é como seus antigos álbuns, "Visions" ou "Halfaxa", cujo ambos são bons, mas este novo álbum os superou
  19. thaleslucas
    Nov 7, 2015
    10
    By far this is the best album that Grimes has created in her career.

    Creatively, with a great production and well-directed composition, Grimes knew how to involve and bring darkness to an alternative pop and that's wonderful. Moreover, she knew exactly how to fit the tracks in your sequence to keep simple, observant, dark and catchy at the same time. It's noteworthy amazing tracks    By far this is the best album that Grimes has created in her career.

    Creatively, with a great production and well-directed composition, Grimes knew how to involve and bring darkness to an alternative pop and that's wonderful. Moreover, she knew exactly how to fit the tracks in your sequence to keep simple, observant, dark and catchy at the same time.

    It's noteworthy amazing tracks like "REALiTi", "Venus Fly", "Butterfly" and "Kill V. Maim" which have, by far, the best plot of production and development.

    Finally, there is nothing to complain about something that's so amazing. Grimes finally arrived in a goddess level, surpassing her previous album "Visions".    … Expand
  20. CharlieGray
    Nov 7, 2015
    10
    This album is a complete masterpiece, incredible record. It just couldn't been better, this is Grimes at her best. My favourite album. Complete blown away.
  21. Onoros
    Nov 7, 2015
    9
    Probably her riskier effort, but it surely pays. This may be somewhat a new sound for her, but you can still hear Grimes in every song. Claire playing with "pop" melodies and structures may scare her oldest fans, but what she did here, is something solid and refreshing.
  22. jvictorfoz
    Nov 7, 2015
    10
    Just perfect,nothing more to say. Grimes managed to surprise everyone with a perfect album,right after her acclaimed "Visions". There is much to expect from this canadian singer,producer,multinstrumentalist
  23. Zimbardo
    Nov 7, 2015
    8
    Pretty solid work by Claire. This is a far more radio-friendly album so those looking for the experimental sound of earlier albums may be disappointed, but this is top notch work which reflects an ability to create diverse tracks while hanging onto what makes Grimes Grimes.

    And lets all breathe a sigh of relief that this album didn't end up being full of tracks like "Go".
  24. WXYZ
    Nov 7, 2015
    10
    [A] phenomenal album. Grimes sounds a lot better, and the 1st song is one of the best intros I have ever heard. P.S. I pretty much prefer this version of REALiTi than the demo.
  25. transfinissa
    Nov 7, 2015
    10
    Está incrível! Esse último álbum mais animado superou minhas expectativas e também de vários fãs. Uma overdose de batidas maravilhosa, letras ótimas e muito bem produzido.
  26. maurili00
    Nov 7, 2015
    10
    Literally, angelic art. This album represent what Grimes is and wharwhat she came for. Great to see great pop anthem in this album without her losing identity.
  27. RafaEmidio
    Nov 7, 2015
    10
    One of the best albums of the year alongside Carly Rae Jepsen's EMOTION and Lana Del Rey's Honeymoon. I've been waiting for Grimes new record for a long time, and i'm not disappointed.
  28. GuilhermeBrusch
    Nov 7, 2015
    10
    Simplesmente maravilhoso. A ascensão synth pop de Grimes, com toques county, sem deixar de lado seu experimentalismo, formando uma mistura perfeita, e maravilhosa de se ouvir. Com duas participações mais que perfeitas, posso dizer que o Art Angels está entre uns dos melhores álbuns desse ano.
  29. Muddsjr
    Nov 7, 2015
    8
    Grimes' long awaited follow up to her much loved Visions is generally more high spirited and the mysterious aura that alienated her sound is reduced greatly with the mainstream accessibility.
    At the same time, the commerciality doesn't destroy anything either. Art Angels is mostly success, with few mis-steps and disappointments.
  30. Mistylicious
    Nov 7, 2015
    10
    This alongside with Carly Rae Jepsen's E-MO-TION are what pop albums should be. A consistent and conceptual body of work, with a clean production and catchy melodies.
  31. Buzz37
    Nov 7, 2015
    10
    Her best album by far. The songs are connected and in a simple way it all makes sense and works like Visions and Halfaxa should. Best tracks: SCREAM, Flesh Without Blood, Kill V. Maim, Artangels, Pin, World Princes part II, Venus Fly and Butterfly, but the entire album deserves a listen.
  32. theZED
    Nov 6, 2015
    10
    A great solo endeavor with brilliant production quality. Complex but immaculate layering and many subtle sound effects are what every track is composed of. You will definitely notice the versatility of Grimes here in this joyful, euphoric album.
  33. TrentRey
    Nov 6, 2015
    10
    It have been years since pop artist/producer/singer/songwriter came out with an album. This is a long-waited album. This is probably the weirdest pop album ever, but the weirdness of the album makes it good. The tracks for the album are by far, the best she ever produced.

    The album version of "Realiti" sounds better than the one she released earlier this year on YouTube. The song is a    It have been years since pop artist/producer/singer/songwriter came out with an album. This is a long-waited album. This is probably the weirdest pop album ever, but the weirdness of the album makes it good. The tracks for the album are by far, the best she ever produced.

    The album version of "Realiti" sounds better than the one she released earlier this year on YouTube. The song is a great song to dance to and sing alone to (if you know the lyrics).

    One of the most catchy song on the album is a song that features Janelle Monáe. "Venus Fly" is an outstanding song with a strong noisy beat. Even though she repeats herself though the entire song, it's a great song and one of the best on the album because of the noise-pop, weird electronic beat.

    This albums sounds like a combination of music that would be in an Japanese anime series and in a JRPG game.

    Scream is another weird track on the album that features Tai rapper, Aristophanes. The lyrics are hard to understand but the track overall, sounds good and fits the theme for the album.

    "Kill V. Maim" is a track where Grimes sounds like a character from an anime singing. It sounds really weird and if you were to bump this in your car very loud people would just shake their head at you. The weirdness of this song, like most of the songs on this album, sounds very good.

    "Flesh without Blood" is the highlight song on the album. It has the best songwriting and it's the only track where it's easy to understand what she's saying. Even though the track is still noisy, the her lyrics are easy to understand.    … Expand
  34. fieri
    Nov 6, 2015
    10
    The entire album is crafted to perfection. The opening, middle and all the way through to the close is an electronic masterpiece. It's the perfect sequel to Visions, and displays development in production on Grimes' behalf, truly worth the way. It's fantastically odd.
  35. stabmyface
    Nov 6, 2015
    10
    This is an absolutely fantastic record and 100% recommend it to any who enjoys this type of electronic, synthpop style. All the songs are sooo catchy and perfectly placed. Laughing and Not Being Normal is an incredible, (and her best), intro, and Butterfly beautifully wraps up the album. Go buy it!
  36. itsvictornunes
    Nov 6, 2015
    10
    Um dos melhores álbuns lançados esse ano, a nova versão de Realiti ficou muito boa. É um álbum que te leva numa viagem psicodélica e grotesca maravilhosa.
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  1. Positive: 30 out of 32
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  1. AllMusic
    Dec 22, 2015
    80
    Claire Boucher's fourth album is wilder, more ambitious, and--at least on the surface--more accessible than her breakthrough
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  2. Mojo
    Dec 18, 2015
    80
    Crackling with radio-primed hooks, whipsnap breakbeats and Boucher’s helium-pitched vocals, Grimes’ third album makes a convincing strike for playlist ubiquity, with a healthy dollop of the oddball chucked in.
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  3. Uncut
    Dec 11, 2015
    80
    You can sense the deceptively complex Art Angels will only continue to yield further depths with time. [Jan 2016, p.76]
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