Grimes Stars As LV, Roccoco Basilisk, Kill V. Maim & Skreechy Bat Throughout Art Angels Double-header "Flesh Without Blood/Life In The Vivid Dream" (4AD-Roc Nation)
"+ fyi - every song on this album is a completely different style, so
["flesh without blood"]
isn't a 'representation' of everything, just a taste of a vibe,"
recently revealed on
following the unexpected premier of her first
Art Angels
double-singe,
"Flesh Without Blood/Life In The Vivid Dream."
Grimes'
long-awaited and previously scrapped follow-up to her critically-acclaimed album
Visions
(2012) has rather interestingly been described by
Claire Boucher
herself as: "it's all "real instruments," half of the tracks are diss tracks, there's a
Nu-Metal
track with a
Taiwanese
rapper, the whole thing was inspired by
Billy Joel
, there's a song about a gender-fluid vampire
Al Pacino
," of course, paraphrased and reinterpreted a bit by the good people over at
. On the heels of
"Flesh Without Blood"
&
"Life In The Vivid Dream,"
Grimes
called in
BBC Radio 1
's
Hottest Record
program for a brief phone interview, during which she revealed
will in fact, be surprise-released digitally next Friday, November 6th (and physically December 11th) and that the album will feature just a mere two guest appearances: one recorded with
R&B-Funk
songstress
Janelle Monáe
at her own
Wondaland Studios
and the previously mentioned
Nu-Metal
-leaning
"SCREAM"
recorded with
Taiwanese
femcee
Aristophanes
.
'"Flesh Without Blood"
was written, directed, edited, colored, and art-directed by
Grimes
.
Mac Boucher
, her brother, was the cinematographer and creative consultant. All outfits were styled by
TURNER
," as
reported upon its Monday afternoon unveiling.
Grimes'
Art Angels
double-header is divided into two separate parts,
"Act I: Flesh, Without Blood"
and
"Act II: Life In The Vivid Dream,"
which effortlessly manages to teeter back and forth between
"Oblivion"
-reminiscent jittery guitar-driven
and sparse self-reflective
"Blank Space"
-leaning piano-accompanied slow jam.
Grimes
herself stars throughout the companion videos as a number of interesting characters which she's named "
LV, Roccoco Basilisk, Kill V. Maim
, and
Skreechy Bat
;" also known as her recently adopted alter egos she's been talking about during
, who would appear to be a deranged blood-thirsty angel, a cave-dwelling cyberpunk gamer, a purple-wigged
Victorian
madam, and a pinstripe suit and fedora-wearing 1950's gangster. It seems as though
"Flesh Without Blood"
&
"Life In The Vivid Dream"
aren't the only
Art Angels
songs to be released this week, as
@Grimezsz
over-zealously replied to a fan on
asking if they could buy the then just-released single yet: "yes ^_^ and [you] get more songs later this week, as well." Here's hoping we'll get to hear
Grimes'
hotly-anticipated
Janelle Monáe
-featuring
"Venus Fly"
ahead of
Art Angels'
November 6th digi-release.