Grimes Returns With Her First Album in 5 Years

Experimental synth-pop star has released her fifth studio album, Miss Anthropocene, five years after her critically acclaimed album Art Angels. Miss Anthropocene, though with much less content than previous albums, packs a punch and delivers consistency that flows beginning to end. With every Grimes record I’ve encountered, I’ve thought, “this is everything I could have asked for,” and Miss Anthropocene is no different.

This album is made up of a good amount of songs that feel like interludes made to make songs like “Delete Forever” and “You’ll Miss Me When I’m Not Around” stand out. In “Delete Forever,” Grimes covers new, acoustic grounds. Grimes is no stranger to delivering songs with heavy subject matter. In an interview with Genius, Grimes explains that “Delete Forever” is about losing some of her closest friends to drug addiction. “I’ve actually had six friends die from like, opiate related deaths, so this song was kind just the post war…” she says, and later continues to explain the lyric, “lost so many men,” in which she relates losing friends to opiate addiction to losing men in war. “Delete Forever” is one of the more naturally melodic cut on the record, making it easier to strike a chord.

“You’ll Miss Me When I’m Not Around,” is another one of those tracks commonly found on 2015’s Art Angels that further solidifies Grimes as a bonafide pop star, only this time she’s brought the mood into 2020. The song progresses the way a typical pop song might, but stands out due to her unusual subject matter and deliciously original production. Although she follows a formula, she goes about as far outside of the box as she possibly could while still following a few keys rules.

Like every Grimes release prior, this is exactly what we needed right now.