The New York Times/2011/Interview

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Out of This World
BY ABBY AGUIRRE 
AUGUST 18, 2011 3:40 PM
Depending on whom you ask, Grimes, the 23-year-old synth-pop musician from Montreal whose real name is Claire Boucher, evokes Björk, Enya, Daft Punk, Donna Summer, Mariah Carey, the Eurythmics, Nicki Minaj, Toni Basil, Zola Jesus or the Smiths. For her part, Boucher describes her bewildering, genre-defying soundscapes and high-pitched falsetto as “post-Internet.” What, exactly, does this mean? “The music of my childhood was really diverse because I had access to everything, so the music I make is sort of schizophrenic,” she explained by phone. Boucher will travel to New York this week to play at MoMA P.S. 1 on Saturday. “Basically I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.”
Boucher seems to have a sense of consistency in at least one thing: recording albums. She’s come out with three in two years, each more ethereal and tripped out than the one before. Following the release of “Darkbloom,” a collaboration with the house musician d’Eon, in April, Boucher toured with Lykke Li and stirred up much buzz with packed sets at South by Southwest this summer and with the dance-heavy video she directed and starred in for the single “Vanessa.”
Her fourth album, due out in January, is “glitchy and dancey and more structured,” she said. “You know, like if you took Mariah Carey and Enya and put them together and Black Diced all the percussion and then added some dub-steppy bass.” Right!
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