The Fog She Lives In

"Genesis" is the kind of song that makes you feel like you’re underwater in the best possible way—Claire Boucher’s voice layered over itself until it stops being a voice and becomes weather. It came from Visions, the album she recorded alone in her Montreal apartment over three weeks without sleeping properly, and that sleep deprivation is somehow audible in every track. "Genesis" in particular has this quality of a dream that keeps almost becoming something coherent and then dissolving. The video matches it: hazy, soft, shot like a memory of a feeling rather than an event. Grimes in 2012 felt like a secret the internet was still deciding whether to share.