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10.0
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NOW
To call it pop might be simplifying, but Art Angels is relentlessly catchy
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10.0
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Pretty Much Amazing
Art Angels is the maximalist brainchild of a prodigious talent. It’s hugely entertaining. It’s delightfully bizarre. It’s refreshingly caustic
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10.0
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Exclaim
Grimes has given us a complete record that's everything pop should be in 2015: utterly uncompromising, imaginative and, somehow, universally accessible
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10.0
81770
10.0 |
DIY
With her fourth album, Claire Boucher opens up a whole new realm of possibilities, and gives the middle finger to expectation in the process
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9.1
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9.1 |
Consequence Of Sound
After Visions, the only thing Grimes could do was to grow as big as the landscape around her. Here’s her mountain
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9.1
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A.V. Club
It’s slick and gritty, fun and funny, and horrifying and grotesque all at once. It will also make you shake your ass like nothing else
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9.0
82503
9.0 |
Gig Soup
Not many self-sufficient artists could create such a beautiful beast
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9.0
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9.0 |
The Quietus
A fever dream of perfect, unsettling pop for a crumbling world. Jaw-breaking, brain-rattling and polymorphously perverse. Listen again and again for intense pleasure. Keep listening until you pass out sick
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9.0
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PopMatters
With a healthy boost in confidence and production value, Claire Boucher makes manifest her boundless passion for the manic whimsy of pop music
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8.5
81961
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Spectrum Culture
Art Angels is what a pop album would sounds like if you took the top 10 chart and deliberately swapped everything for unexpected patterns and instruments
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8.5
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Pitchfork
She's a human zeitgeist, redrawing all the binaries and boundaries by which we define pop music and forcing us to come along.
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8.5
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The 405
Fourteen ambitiously avant-pop numbers, just as potently sugary as they are powerfully ominous
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8.2
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Resident Advisor
On Art Angels, the melodies are sharper and the vocals are clearer, but it's still Boucher at the helm
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8.0
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State
Having carved out a reputation as something of an underground indie-pop pioneer, Grimes will no doubt face accusations of selling out
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8.0
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Drowned In Sound
Art Angels is likely to emerge from 2015 as one of the most universally adored albums of the year
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8.0
81926
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Tiny Mix Tapes
The depth of her pen-work finds its sonic foil in how she treats historical information: 90s vocal fetishes, jangly guitars, breakbeats, and souped hardware production
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8.0
82106
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Uncut
Will only continue to yield further depths with time. Print edition only
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8.0
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The Independent
It’s not so much that she’s changed direction completely, as that she’s drained her art of the obfuscating sonic blabber to leave her pop aesthetic
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8.0
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Mojo
One of 2015’s standout pop albums
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8.0
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Clash
'Art Angels' is boundary pushing, it’s listenable and it’s Boucher’s most ambitious and most consistent work to date.
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8.0
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8.0 |
Spin
She flicks between influences high and low, twisting the radio frequencies both domestic and extraterrestrial
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8.0
81725
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Under The Radar
Grimes manages to face mounting hype with a skillful redefinition of boundaries. It may be new territory, but she's navigating it pretty damn well
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8.0
81627
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NME
She's still laughing and not being normal, only this time, it's all the way to the ban
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8.0
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FasterLouder
While Art Angels definitely leans further toward pop than Visions did, this might say more about the state of pop in 2015 than it does about the record
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8.0
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musicOMH
Boucher’s pleasingly scattergun approach means that it doesn’t hold together as a fully coherent album. Yet after a couple of plays, the weird and wonderful world of Grimes soon starts to seep into you
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7.5
81948
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Earbuddy
It feels like the culmination of what has been always bubbling below the surface in Grimes' music
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7.0
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Rolling Stone
Shape-shifting pop diva ups her game, stays delightfully weird
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7.0
82209
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Beardfood
Is it revolutionary? No. Is it insanely listenable, addictive, subtle pop music? Yes
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7.0
81703
7.0 |
Slant Magazine
The worst that can be said of Art Angels is that its maximalist ambitions sometimes overshoot the needs of pop
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6.0
81722
6.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
On Art Angels, we hear that high art experimentation fall into mainstream territory with only fleeting moments of brilliance
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6.0
81623
6.0 |
The Observer
Grimes has not reinvented the pop wheel, she’s just driven it off road a little
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4.0
81624
4.0 |
The FT
The results are underwhelming
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4.0
81712
4.0 |
God Is In The TV
The construction of the new songs are noticeably straightforward containing predictable 2010’s EDM elements such as thumping nightclub basslines, treble-tampering and repetitive drops, making it comparable to existing chart-toppers
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