New band of the day – No 982: Grimes

This Canadian artist's outer-limits pop is ethereal and electronic but always accessible – even at its most atonalHometown: Montreal.The lineup: Claire Boucher (vocals, music).The background: We were going to write about someone called Destroyer today until a reader kindly (actually, sternly) pointed out that the musician, an alias for Dan Bejar, has been going for yonks, even if he – the reader, not Bejar – is probably the only person in the UK to have heard of him. Shame, though, because...

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