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Visions

Her third album: thirteen tracks made in three weeks on GarageBand.
Grimes, 2012

Visions includes a poem by Anna Akhmatova among its credits and two features, Doldrums on "Colour of Moonlight (Antiochus)" and Majical Cloudz on "Nightmusic". Jasper Baydala did the layout and Mark Khair designed the alien head on the cover. The singles were "Oblivion" as a promo in October 2011 and "Genesis" as the lead single on January 9, 2012. It is certified gold in Canada and New Zealand and silver in the UK.

AllMusic's Heather Phares gave it five stars, the Guardian's Rebecca Nicholson four, calling it a smart, funny album that is almost impossible not to dance to, and NME 8 out of 10; Rolling Stone gave 3 out of 5. NME placed it 252nd on its list of the 500 greatest albums and Pitchfork 50th among the best albums of the 2010s.

Track listing

  1. Infinite Love Without Fulfilment1:36
  2. Genesis4:15
  3. Oblivion4:12
  4. Eight1:48
  5. Circumambient3:43
  6. Vowels = Space and Time4:21
  7. Visiting Statue1:59
  8. Be a Body4:20
  9. Colour of Moonlight (Antiochus)4:00
  10. Symphonia IX (My Wait Is U)4:53
  11. Nightmusic5:03
  12. Skin6:09
  13. Know the Way (Outro)1:45

More from Grimes

Geidi Primes (2010), Halfaxa (2010), Art Angels (2015), Miss Anthropocene (2020)

Sources

  1. Visions (Grimes album), Wikipedia
  2. Grimes' Visions at 10, Nylon (2022-02-22)