Visions (Grimes album) form of creative work studio album
Background and recording
Claire Boucher released her debut album as Grimes, Geidi Primes on Canadian record label Arbutus Records in January 2010, followed by Halfaxa, in October of the same year. Shortly after, she began publicly promoting Grimes and started touring beyond Montreal. In 2011, she released a split 12" EP with fellow Montreal based musician d'Eon, Darkbloom and, beginning in May, opened for Swedish singer Lykke Li on her North American Tour, and the following August her debut album was re-released through No Pain in Pop Records, in CD and vinyl format for the first time.Growing frustrated with touring and a lack of stability in her life, Boucher began work on Visions in August 2011 over three weeks at her home in Montreal. While under a release deadline set before she had started the album by her then manager, she recorded the album at a "psychotic pace", not sleeping or eating for nine days while using amphetamines to meet the deadline. Most songs on the album were finished in a single day, without many demos being created beforehand. She described the process as being "equally enjoyable and tortuous". She created the album hoping to "clear [her] mental slate. Overriding everything I’d done previously, too" stating the album "is a pretty good representation of the beginning of the future.” Visions was recorded using Apple's GarageBand, primarily using a Roland Juno-G keyboard, vocal pedals, and a sampler. The album was mixed by Boucher and Sebastian Cowan at their La Brique Studio Space. She signed with record label 4AD in January 2012.
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