Bleep

After months of media hype, scrapped track lists and red-herring singles – Claire Boucher’s followup to 2012’s generation-defining Visions is finally here. Art Angels finds Grimes racing into faraway lands paying no attention to age-old ideas like genre or classification. If SCREAM – a gory interlude featuring Taiwanese rapper Aristophanes – is anything to go by, Art Angels is the record fans dreamed of. It’s a supersonic cauldron-mix of everything from scream through to J-pop. From the plaintive cinematic overture to the sugary bounce of Flesh Without Blood, Art Angels affirms Grimes’ status as one of our most important artists. Impossible to categorise and fantastically impossible to ignore.