The Red Bulletin/Interview

===Interviewhttps://issuu.com/redbulletin.com/docs/0312_uk/92===
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Essential listening
Post-Internet Generation
GRIMES The Canadian multi-tasker has made more good music in her first two years on the circuit than many others do in a whole career
Visions: an ethereal electro sound
Songwriting, recording, album cover design, making the video... Claire Boucher, alias Grimes, likes to do it all herself. Not because she has to, it's just that the 23-year-old Canadian is so bursting with talent that she knows no other way. Grimes may only be at the beginning of a beautiful friendship with her fans, but she has taken her Rihanna-meets-Aphex-Twin synth pop on the road with Lykke Li and released three albums. Coming soon is Visions, her fourth, an enigmatic production that would make the perfect soundtrack for a fantasy film starring Kate Bush. 
THE RED BULLETIN: Four albums in two years. That's good going... 
GRIMES: I just make a lot of music. There are still about another 1,200 songs lying in wait on my hard drive. 
You describe your music as "post-internet", what does that mean?
That I grew up with a big glut of music available due to Napster. That means I've never preferred specific types of music. At school, I loved Outkast and Marilyn Manson. There's no contradiction between loving rap and Gothic rock for my generation. And that comes across in my music. 
Producing the music and the video seems to come naturally to you. 
Making electronic music is a very visual process in and of itself. You're moving blocks around on the screen. So. making videos isn't stepping into the unknown. If anything, I prefer it. Making music is the main course and working on the video is the dessert.
Grimes's Visions is released on March
12. For tour dates and audio delights, visit: www.grimesmusic.com
WORDS: FLORIAN OBKIRCHER.Category:Interview
Category:2012