Art Angels/Critical Reception

* Album
* **Critical Reception**
* Physical Release

*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. 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". 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". *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" 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".

## References

1. ↑ http://www.metacritic.com/music/art-angels/grimes
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