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Visions (Music)
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Visions is the third studio album from Canadian musician Grimes, released January 31st, 2012. The album was recorded in August 2011 within the span of two weeks while locked away in her Montreal apartment with the windows blacked out, attempting to emulate Hildegard von Bingen. The album was produced entirely on GarageBand with a Juno-G keyboard, vocal pedals, and a sampler. It was preceded by two singles, "Genesis" and "Oblivion," the latter of which has since become her Signature Song. Genre-wise it is considered Dream Pop, Synth-Pop, and Indie Pop.The album received critical acclaim upon release, and marked Grimes' breakthrough into indie stardom. Visions is also credited for bringing the Montreal DIY scene into the public sphere.The album is now considered a landmark of indie music in the 2010s, one of the best indie records of the decade, and a precursor for musical genres such as Hyper Pop. On their list of the 200 Best Songs of the 2010s, Pitchfork ranked "Oblivion" at #2, just behind "Alright" by Kendrick Lamar.Succeeded by Art Angels in 2015. Tracklist Infinite Love Without Fulfillment Genesis Oblivion Eight Circumambient Vowels = space and time Visiting Statue Be a Body Colour of Moonlight (Antiochus) Symphonia IX (My Wait Is U) Nightmusic Skin Know the Way Bonus Tracks (not available on streaming) Angel Life After Death Christmas Song (with Jay Worthy) | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: The final song, "Know the Way" is about giving up religion, but sounds more serene rather than sad in the face of uncertainty about the future. | |
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Album Intro Track | |
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Album Intro Track: "Infinite Love Without Fulfillment." | |
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Gratuitous Japanese | |
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Gratuitous Japanese: "Be a Body" on some versions of the album comes with the subtitle "侘寂," read as "wabisabi," in parentheses. Wabisabi is a Japanese-originating aesthetic that finds in the beauty in things that are transient and imperfect. There's some symbols on the album cover that look sort of like Japanese hiragana, but it's just gibberish. | |
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Gratuitous Panning | |
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Gratuitous Panning: One of the vocal melodies on "Skin" does this. | |
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Echoing Acoustics | |
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Echoing Acoustics: All over the place. | |
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Christmas Songs | |
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Christmas Songs: The bonus track with Jay Worthy is titled "Christmas Song" but the lyrics don't really have anything to do with Christmas. | |
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Non-Appearing Title | |
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Non-Appearing Title: The word "visions" never appears in the actual album, and is more referring to how she attempted to drive herself insane while making the album and believed she was channeling spirits and receiving visions from God by the end of it. | |
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All Love Is Unrequited | |
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All Love Is Unrequited: "Skin" and "Symphonia IX." | |
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Hipster | |
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Hipster: Lampshaded by Grimes herself, who calls it a "hipster-ass album." | |
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Sdrawkcab Speech | |
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Sdrawkcab Speech: On "Nightmusic." The reversed lines are actually saying, "They sing in the dark, they're talking to me, and sing in the dark, enlighten the phase." | |
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Catholic School Girls Rule | |
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Catholic School Girls Rule: A non-sexualized example in "Genesis." She wears a Catholic-school inspired outfit in the video, complete with pigtails, a plaid skirt, and bows on her socks. Could also be a dual tribute to Sailor Fuku as well, since Grimes is a fan of anime. | |
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Helium Speech | |
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Helium Speech: Significantly pitches up her voice on "Eight" and "Be a Body." | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The cover features quotes from Anna Akhmatova poems "But Listen, I Am Warning You" and "A Song of the Final Meeting." (See Gratuitous Russian above). "Nightmusic" is a reference to "Nachtmusik" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The "Genesis" music video is loosely based on "The Seven Deadly Sins and The Four Last Things"◊ by Hieronymus Bosch and Catholic/medieval imagery, hence the schoolgirl uniform, Flaming Sword, Epic Flail, and the snake. | |
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I Will Wait for You | |
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I Will Wait for You: Said verbatim on "Infinite Love Without Fulfillment" and "Oblivion." | |
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Earth Song | |
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Earth Song: "Life After Death" is about deforestation. | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
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Lyrical Dissonance: "Oblivion" has some of the darkest lyrics on the record, but the music is dreamy and ethereal. | |
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Word Salad Lyrics | |
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Word Salad Lyrics: A few of the songs have a lyrical focus, but many of them are this. Word of God says that "Genesis" originally wasn't meant to be on the album and was only supposed to be played live, so the song doesn't really have lyrics. Doesn't stop people from trying to figure them out, though. | |
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Design Student's Orgasm | |
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Design Student's Orgasm: The cover absolutely is. According to her, she drew it while watching Enter the Void after she finished the album, and it took fourteen hours to complete. | |
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Self-Backing Vocalist | |
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Self-Backing Vocalist: Most of the songs feature layers and layers of her own vocals. | |
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Gratuitous Russian | |
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The cover features quotes from Anna Akhmatova poems "But Listen, I Am Warning You" and "A Song of the Final Meeting." (See Gratuitous Russian above). | |
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Crisis of Faith | |
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Crisis of Faith: "Know the Way" is about rejecting Christianity. In the notes for the album, she says the song was like a farewell to her "religious brain" and Catholic upbringing. | |
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Heart Symbol | |
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Heart Symbol: "Infinite � Without Fulfillment." | |
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