Grimes
Grimes
Electronic dark wave and synthpop artist whose 2012 album Visions won the 2013 JUNO Award for Electronic Album of the Year.
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth17 March 1988
CityVancouver, Canada
CountryCanada
long three exhausted
The groove can go for like three days - once I'm in it it will just keep going until I'm totally exhausted. But that's how I like to work, I like to be away from everyone and just get in the zone, and stay there for as long as I can keep it there.
writing dark winter
I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it's dark.
shoes costumes needs
I don't know if I would ever have costume changes - usually I just end up taking off my shoes, I get so sweaty, and... I just need to be comfortable.
crazy ideas people
I grew up going to punk shows, that kind of thing - I don't wanna make pop punk! - but I like the idea of people going totally crazy and it being really intimate, loud and super-aggressive, but combining that with pop music.
crazy moving people
Lately I've been really into screaming a lot through delay [effects], having seven people on stage topless going crazy, stuff like that. Really in your face, but maybe more organic than choreographed dance moves.
thinking lasts music-is
The last thing I think about when I'm making music is its reception.
sweet needs catchy
When I'm making something I need it to be catchy - I need it to hit the sweet spot.
noise needs kind
I love pop music, but I also love noise music, IDM - anything really, I get something out of most kinds of music. I just need to enjoy the process.
thinking important poppies
I think you can hear, when you listen to someone's music, whether or not they're enjoying making it - it's so great to hear music where you can tell the person making it was just having a blast. That's really important to me as far as my process goes. That's probably why my music ends up being so poppy!
important four hours
It takes me probably about four hours to get into the groove [with making music]. And it's really important for me to not break the groove.
night black window
I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I'll black out the windows or something.
beer thinking weather
One thing with Montreal is it's so cold and everyone's so poor and beer's so cheap: if you go to a show you have to brave the weather to get there. So you show up and everyone's soaking wet - there's a sense of 'I trekked through three feet of snow to get here!' I think there's a kind of camaraderie that arises out of that, that's important to me as well.
successful giving labels
There aren't many other labels who I can say are that successful, and can give me as much as 4AD gives me, and still have such a great roster.
thinking important texture
I know texture is really important, but I think texture and stuff precedes songwriting a lot of the time these days.