Grimes's Forthcoming Album Is About Ten Different Ways To Die

Grimes's forthcoming album, Miss_Anthropocene, based on the earliest specifics that can be gleaned from singles like "Violence" and "So Heavy I Fell By means of the Earth," is going to be a bold, idealistic leap into the unknown. Sonically, its distorted scraps of contemporary pop are glued with each other to make one, seriously fucked up aesthetic that's soul-soothing, however mysteriously gives you a feeling of unrest. There's a reason for that – a religious one. In a new conversation with Lana Del Rey and actress Brit Marling for Interview Magazine, Grimes complex the album's inspirations in mythology.


Miss_Anthropocene is going to be a mystical extension of Grimes that isn't just about a demon that loves doomsday. In her discussion with Lana, Grimes revealed that not only is the album also inspired by personalized experiences, it's about different characteristic of various religions that captivate her. "I love how the ancient Greeks or the ancient Egyptians lived in this weird anime world where there were just tons of gods that would be anything," she mentioned. "It’s like every form of suffering had a representation. I wonder if it almost has a positive psychological effect. If your kid dies in a war, you could literally go speak to War and be like, 'Why did you do this?' Or, 'I hope you did this for a reason.'"


Grimes continued by tying her understanding of those religions to the processes at play in and through Miss_Anthropocene. "There’s a weird philosophical justification for all pain, and there’s an anthropomorphization of every form of pain," she mentioned. "In our current society, we don’t even know how to talk about things. So my album’s about a modern demonology or a modern pantheon where every song is about an other way to suffer or an other way to die."


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While talking to Marling, Grimes also explained why she believes that the time that we stay in right now is the most crucial in human history. "We’re going to be digitizing reality and colonizing space simultaneously, which may be two of the craziest things that will have occurred in the past of humanity," she said.


Check out Grimes's full discussion with Lana and Marling at the link up above.