27.12.2021: Grimes 'Player of Games', official video out now!

GRIMES and i_o release “VIOLENCE”, New music video out now!!

Today, multi-media recording artist and producer Grimes shares the official video for 'Venus Fly.' The video, directed and edited by Grimes, also features Janelle Monáe. 'Venus Fly' is now live on Grimes' YouTube Channel

"We used the Phantom cameras to create a feeling of time suspended," said Grimes of the inspiration behind the video.

'Venus Fly' is taken from Grimes' critically-adored album 'Art Angels' (4AD) which had prime placement on basically every End of Year list. Last year, Grimes toured the album, selling out venues and headlining festivals across the world.

Grimes reveals the new self-directed video for "California" filmed in Los Angeles and Paris. The video features cameos from singer Megan James of Purity Ring, musician HANA, model Eric Cheng, musician Born Gold, and rising star Mac Boucher. Last week Grimes performed 'Flesh Without Blood' on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon.

Grimes recently finished a 20-date European tour, including a SOLD OUT show at London's Brixton Academy. The Guardian and The Observer reviewed the show with an incredible 5*, while Evening Standard, The Telegraph and Financial Times all gave the show 4*. She will perform at festivals including Glastonbury, Latitude, Lollapalooza and FYF amongst others and will open for Florence & The Machine in the U.S. this June.

'Art Angels' had prime placement on basically every 2015 End of Year album list, with #1 spots from NME, Crack, Stereogum and others. On the album NME said, 'Not just a pop star, but perhaps the coolest musician on the planet' and Uncut called it 'iconoclastic set'. The Telegraph titled it 'a fearless and fascinating record'. iTunes named 'Art Angels' the #1 Indie Album of 2015 and it finished out the year at #1 most added on CMJ Radio. Within the past year, Grimes graced the covers of Dazed, NME, ES Magazine, DIY, The FADER, Nylon and more.

Grimes is the inventive work of Claire Boucher, a project that has gained notoriety since its inception back in early-2010. Moving to Montreal from Vancouver in 2006, she developed Grimes among the city’s burgeoning DIY scene; a scene where both punk ethos and pop music collide, resulting in a distinct sense of community, religiosity and psychedelic revelry. Also a prolific force,Visions will be her fourth release in less than two years and countless shows have been performed in this time, both helping to build much intrigue as to what’s next – “She’s blossoming and developing almost more quickly than we can keep track of… (She) could very well be poised for a meteoric rise with the release of her next full length.” (Pitchfork).

With her creative bent being both musical and visual, her second self embodies the arts of 2D, performance, dance, video and sound, weaving them all together to strong rhythmic effect. Subsequent records have sharpened her production skills and each one has tackled different influences and styles. This new set incorporates influences as wide as Enya, TLC and Aphex Twin, whilst drawing from genres like New Jack Swing, IDM, New Age, K-pop, Industrial and glitch resulting in a record that is both otherworldly and futuristic

Claire describes her work as, “the only means through which I can be fully expressive. It is both an ethereal escape from, and a violent embrace of, my experience. The creative process is a quest for the ultimate sensual, mystical and cathartic experience and the vehicle for my psychic purging. Visions was conceived in a period of self-imposed cloistering during which time I did not see daylight.”