AccuRadio Song Of The Day-Grimes

Artist:Grimes

Song:Flesh Without Blood

Album:Art Angels

Clare "Grimes" Boucher has been an indie music darling for the last few years. She was poised to make her major label debut but that seems to have gone sour and she is trying to get out of her contract. She was born Mar. 17, 1988 in Vancouver. After graduating from high school, she moved to Montreal to study neuroscience at McGill University. She started posting music on MySpace as Grimes in 2007. The name is because she said her favorite type of music was "grime" without knowing that "grime" was a type of dance music that was once popular in England. So the name is a joke. She starts taking music more seriously and self released a couple of albums. There's enough interest in her music that Clare decides to leave school, have her albums released on a small label to get better distribution and open for Swedish singer Lykke Li on her North American tour. Then she signs with the major indie label 4AD and releases the 2012 album Visions. She got a lot of critical acclaim and a Juno nomination for Breakthrough Artist of the Year. She signs with Jay-Z's management company Roc Nation. Flesh Without Blood is from Clare's 2015 album Art Angels. Like her previous albums, Clare wrote and produced everything herself. She has resisted bringing in outside producers. but it seemed inevitable that she would sign with a major label and then what. It's a chicken and egg thing. To keep her independence she would have to stay with 4AD. But if she wants to be a big star, she needs the major label. But they call the shots. Clare's music has commercial potential. Billboard reported in Mar. 2021 that Clare signed with Columbia Records. She was a judge on the FOX music competition show Alter Ego. And she has had two children with Elon Musk though the relationship has ended. After a couple of singles were released, Clare's album Book 1 was scheduled for a 2023 release. Then she announced a couple of months ago that she is getting out of her Columbia contract. Who knows if the album will ever be released or what will happen to Clare "Grimes" Boucher. Here's the video for Flesh Without Blood by Grimes.