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| Recorded = 2013–15 | Length = 49:37 | Label = | Producer = Claire Boucher | Last album = ''Visions'' (2012) | This album = ''Art Angels'' (2015) | Misc = }} ''Art Angels'' is the fourth studio album by Canadian singer and producer Claire Boucher, professionally known as Grimes. It was released digitally on November 6, 2015 via 4AD, and will be released in physical formats on December 11, 2015. Boucher began planning the record in 2013 as the follow-up to her third studio album ''Visions'', however she scrapped most of the material from these sessions and began a new set of recordings in 2014. The track "REALiTi", which came from the earlier recordings, was released as a demo in early 2015. After the demo received critical praise Boucher decided to include an alternate version of the song in the final release. ''Art Angels'' has been described as being more accessible than Grimes' previous albums while retaining her experimental influences. The album features guest vocals from Taiwanese rapper Aristophanes and American recording artist Janelle Monáe. Two singles, "Flesh without Blood" and "SCREAM", were released ahead of the album and a single music video was made for the tracks "Flesh without Blood" and "Life in the Vivid Dream". ''Art Angels'' sold 11,000 copies in the first week of its release and became Boucher's highest charting album at the time. The album was released to widespread critical acclaim. The album was number one on NME's Albums of the year 2015 and number one on Stereogum's 50 Best Albums Of 2015. ==Background== Boucher's constant touring in 2013 for her 2012 album, ''Visions'', almost led to a physical collapse by the end of the year, bringing her to a point where she recalled "putting a hand up and grabbing a piece of () hair, and () could just pull () hair out". She also became tired of how the music industry ignored her technical abilities, who would focus on her being a "female musician" and having a "girly voice"; she responded to these generalisations with "yeah, but I’m a producer and I spend all day looking at fucking graphs and EQs and doing really technical work". When media outlets began running her Tumblr posts as headlines, she wrote a post on her blog about her misrepresentation in the media and the sexism she had faced in the music industry, declaring "i dont want my words to be taken out of context. i dont want to be infantilized because i refuse to be sexualized () im tired of the weird insistence that i need a band or i need to work with outside producers". Being in an "unstable" and "beyond exhausted" state, along with her frustration toward the media, caused her to consider ending the Grimes project and solely writing songs for other artists, or at least putting her life in the public eye on hold. Her experiences, however, eventually began to strengthen her conviction in her being a solo artist. In a 2015 feature by ''The Fader'', Boucher stated that while working in music studios "there () all these engineers (didn't let her ) touch the equipment () and then a male producer would come in, and he’d be allowed to do it". These incidents, which she described as sexist, left her "disillusioned with the music industry" and made her "realize what () was doing is important".〔 After recording her previous album ''Visions'' entirely in a blacked-out room during a sleepless, three-week period while taking "a lot of drugs", Boucher stated that she would not put herself through such extremes again and that "great moments of clarity came when () was not high". She described becoming healthy as "a really hard thing to do", yet she recognised the importance of "making sure that you eat every day, and eat enough food, and sleep at night". Although she acknowledged this as sounding "really basic", she said that it was tough for her. Boucher began to take more control over her life both artistically and personally by relocating from Montreal to Squamish and then Los Angeles, severing ties with her former management team and signing to Roc Nation in December 2013 to help her deal with the media.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Art Angels」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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