Grimes Is Back
Visions is one of the best albums of the last ten years. I’ll just say it directly. Genesis,
Oblivion,
those tracks lived on endless repeat. The whole record had this kind of broken elegance that made it hard to listen to anything else for a while. And almost nobody cared. It hit 67 in the UK, barely scraped the US top 100. People sleep on obvious things.
Grimes has a new song now called Go.
Rihanna didn’t want it—passed, for whatever reason. I have no idea why. It’s got that same quality, that sense of something beautiful and fractured at the same time. Sounds off until you get what it’s doing, then you can’t unhear it.
She’s always been out of sync with what the machine wants to sell. Visions proved she didn’t need the machine to work. This new track is her saying the same thing again, which feels right.