Grimes is Claire Boucher, the Vancouver-born musician, producer, and visual artist who came up through Montreal's experimental scene on Arbutus Records. Visions (2012) is the critical landmark and Art Angels (2015) the commercial breakthrough — art pop, synth-pop, and dream pop all bent to her vision. Explore Grimes vinyl, CDs, and reissues at Wax Trax Records.
Claire Elise Boucher, performing as Grimes, was born in Vancouver, British Columbia on March 17, 1988. She studied at McGill University in Montreal and was active in the Montreal experimental music scene, signing with Arbutus Records for her early releases. Her 2012 album Visions on Arbutus / 4AD became a critical landmark, with Art Angels (2015) marking her commercial breakthrough through Columbia Records. She is the mother of three children with technology entrepreneur Elon Musk. She has continued releasing material across multiple decades alongside parallel work in visual art, technology, and other creative fields.
Grimes's sound combines art pop, electronic, synth-pop, dream pop, witch house, and experimental pop with her distinctive vocal processing approaches, dense layered electronic production, and conceptual lyrical content addressing technology, mythology, and futurism.
4AD pressings of the Grimes catalog have been issued in multiple color variant editions and limited deluxe pressings. Visions and Art Angels have had multiple anniversary repressings.
Listeners new to Grimes typically start with Visions (2012) or Art Angels (2015).
