New music: Grimes – Fragments of the Future

It's Salem meets Mariah Carey, apparently – though another description of Claire Boucher's music is 'western medieval organum'. Oh-kay ...Montreal's Grimes, aka Claire Boucher, is, according to her label, influenced by "R&B, industrial, goth, hip-hop and western medieval organum" and references Salem, Mariah Carey, Gang Gang Dance and the Smiths. In reality, she sounds nothing like any of these artists and the genres are mixed in such a way that if she does touch on any of them, then it's so f...

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