Art Angels/Critical Reception

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Album
Critical Reception
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Art Angels sold 11,000 copies in the first week of its release and became Grimes' highest charting album at the time. The album was released to widespread critical acclaim and was ranked by several publications as one of the best albums of 2015, making the top 3 several times.
== Critical Reception ==
Art Angels received widespread acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 88, which indicates "universal acclaim", based on 31 reviews.http://www.metacritic.com/music/art-angels/grimes In a positive review, The A.V. Club called the album "slick and gritty, fun and funny, and horrifying and grotesque all at once" and said that "it will also make you shake your ass like nothing else". They also highlighted the track "Kill V. Maim" as holding "the full weight of Grimes' abilities as both a producer and singer".https://web.archive.org/web/20151107093131/https://www.avclub.com/review/grimes-brings-horror-dance-floor-art-angels-227993 While Billboard praised Art Angels as "a marvel of meticulous, even obsessive home-studio recording, uncompromised by bandmates or collaborators", they criticized Grimes' voice as "her least impressive, most commonplace tool".http://www.billboard.com/articles/review/6754174/grimes-art-angels-album-review Clash stated that "this is the truest representation of Grimes we've heard yet: Art Angels is boundary pushing, it's listenable and it's Boucher's most ambitious and most consistent work to date" and commended the production of the album as the "one thing that does tie it all together".http://www.clashmusic.com/reviews/grimes-art-angels. Although referring to Art Angels as "simultaneously [Grimes'] most accessible and her least personal body of work", Consequence of Sound called the album "pure Grimes — performative, maximalist, joyful, and broad".http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/11/album-review-grimes-art-angels/
===Year-end lists===
A.V. Club 	The 15 Best Albums of 2015 	4 	http://www.avclub.com/article/15-best-albums-2015-228932
Billboard 	25 Best Albums of 2015: Critics' Picks	3 	http://www.billboard.com/photos/6792633/best-albums-of-2015
Blare 	The Top 50 Albums of 2015 	31	http://blaremagazine.com/2015/12/10/the-top-50-albums-of-2015/
Clash 	Albums of the Year 	3 	http://clashmusic.com/features/clash-albums-of-the-year-2015-5-1
Complex 	The Best Albums of 2015 	28	http://www.complex.com/music/best-albums-of-2015/
Consequence of Sound	Top 50 Albums of 2015 	3 	http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/12/top-50-albums-of-2015/
Cosmopolitan 	The 15 Best Albums of 2015 	2 	http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/music/a50922/best-albums-2015/
Crack 	Albums of the Year 2015 	16	http://crackmagazine.net/article/music/albums-of-the-year/
Dazed 	The Top 20 Albums of 2015 	2 	http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/28766/1/the-top-20-albums-of-2015
Diffuser 	The 50 Best Albums of 2015 	3 	http://diffuser.fm/the-50-best-albums-of-2015/
Digital Spy 	The 25 Best Albums of 2015 	4 	http://www.digitalspy.com/music/feature/a777428/the-25-best-albums-of-2015-heres-what-we-ranked-from-25-11/
Drowned in Sound 	Favourite Albums of the Year 2015 	43	http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4149657-drowned-in-sounds-favourite-albums-of-the-year-2015
Dummy 	The 30 Best Albums of 2015 	20	http://www.dummymag.com/lists/the-30-best-albums-of-2015-dummy
Exclaim! 	Top 20 Pop & Rock Albums 	1 	http://exclaim.ca/music/article/exclaims_top_20_pop_rock_albums_part_two-best_of_2015
FACT 	The 50 Best Albums of 2015 	5 	http://www.factmag.com/2015/12/09/the-50-best-albums-of-2015/
FasterLouder 	The 50 Best Albums of 2015 	10	http://fasterlouder.junkee.com/the-50-best-albums-of-2015/852415
Gigwise 	Albums of the Year 2015 	49	http://www.gigwise.com/features/104657/best-albums-of-2015-55-41-grimes-florence-lana
Gorilla vs. Bear 	Albums of 2015 	1 	http://www.gorillavsbear.net/gorilla-vs-bears-albums-of-2015/
Idolator 	2015's Best Albums 	1 	http://www.idolator.com/7616923/best-albums-2015
Mashable 	The 30 Best Albums of 2015 	3 	http://mashable.com/2015/12/15/best-albums-2015/#0xhicJxQEkqA
Mixmag 	The Top 50 Albums of 2015 	32	http://www.mixmag.net/feature/top-50-albums-of-2015/30
musicOHM 	Top 50 Albums of 2015 	27	http://www.musicomh.com/features/lists/musicomhs-top-50-albums-2015
New York Times 	The Best Albums of 2015 	3 	http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/arts/music/best-albums-of-2015.html
NME 	Albums of the Year 2015 	1 	http://www.nme.com/photos/nme-s-albums-of-the-year-2015/394320
NOW 	Top Albums of 2015 	7 	https://nowtoronto.com/music/album-reviews/top-albums-of-2015/
No Ripcord 	Top Albums of 2015 	6 	http://www.noripcord.com/features/top-albums-2015
Noisey 	The 50 Best Albums of 2015 	5 	http://noisey.vice.com/blog/50-best-albums-of-2015
Paste 	The 50 Best Albums of 2015 	24	http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/12/the-50-best-albums-of-2015.html?p=2
Pigeons & Planes 	Best Albums of 2015 	1 	http://pigeonsandplanes.com/2015/12/best-albums-of-2015/s/grimes-art-angels-2/
Pitchfork 	The 50 Best Albums of 2015 	3 	http://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/9764-the-50-best-albums-of-2015/
PopMatters 	The 80 Best Albums of 2015 	15	http://www.popmatters.com/feature/the-80-best-albums-of-2015/P6/
Popjustice 	The Top 33 Albums of 2015 	13	http://www.popjustice.com/articles/the-top-33-albums-of-2015/140057/
Pretty Much Amazing 	The 50 Best Albums of 2015 	3 	http://prettymuchamazing.com/features/best-albums-2015
Rough Trade 	Albums of the Year 2015 	82	http://www.roughtrade.com/aoty15/4
==Chart performance==
Australian Albums (ARIA)http://www.australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Grimes&titel=Art+Angels&cat=a 	30
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)http://www.ultratop.be/nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Grimes&titel=Art+Angels&cat=a 	82
Canadian Albums (Billboard)http://www.billboard.com/artist/303162/Grimes/chart?f=309 	16
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)http://www.dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Grimes&titel=Art+Angels&cat=a 	84
Greek Albums (IFPI)http://www.chart-track.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p%2Fmusicvideo%2Fmusic%2Farchive%2Findex_test.jsp&ct=240002&arch=t&lyr=2015&year=2015&week=46 	52
Irish Albums (IRMA)http://www.chart-track.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p%2Fmusicvideo%2Fmusic%2Farchive%2Findex_test.jsp&ct=240002&arch=t&lyr=2015&year=2015&week=46 	31
Irish Independent Albums (IRMA)http://www.chart-track.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p%2Fmusicvideo%2Fmusic%2Farchive%2Findex_test.jsp&ct=240007&arch=t&lyr=2015&year=2015&week=46	4
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)http://www.charts.org.nz/showitem.asp?interpret=Grimes&titel=Art+Angels&cat=a 	28
Scottish Albums (OOC)http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/scottish-albums-chart/20151113/40/ 	40
UK Albums (OCC)http://www.officialcharts.com/archive-chart/_/3/2015-11-13 	31
UK Independent Albums (OCC)http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/independent-albums-chart/20151113/131/ 	6
US Billboard 200http://www.billboard.com/artist/303162/Grimes/chart?f=305 	36
US Top Alternative Albums (Billboard)http://www.billboard.com/artist/303162/Grimes/chart?f=794 	1
US Digital Albums (Billboard)http://www.billboard.com/artist/303162/Grimes/chart?f=400 	9
US Independent Albums (Billboard)http://www.billboard.com/artist/303162/Grimes/chart?f=326 	2
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