Miss Anthropocene
by Grimes

From Vatsal TOP 100 COMMENTER 03/17/2020 09:35 | #248806 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

This album makes Art Angels look like an outlier in her discography cuz this feels like a closer sonic successor to Visions. It pulls back on a lot of the bombast of Art Angels, for better or worse, but its not necessarily a decline in quality. But that also makes it easier to explore, fall in love with, and then eventually outgrow the initial rush. This is my opinion so far. I can stil listen to Art Angels any day and it sounds how it did that first month i listened to (and died over) it, but I feel like Miss_Anthropocene won't have the same longevity.
Its still a solid album throughout though. Grimes is a crazy person and I love it! It takes a crazy person to make fucking 4aem (my favourite off the album), Darkseid and My Name Is Dark.

Bottom line: A great piece of work. Art Angels remains untouched.

I don't know why, but I sort of expect more. Something more...wierd, out there. This is a nice album and it has nothing wrong with it. The expectation with Grimes is that she will do something absolutely unique.

From cestuneblague TOP 100 COMMENTER 03/22/2020 09:58 | #249005 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Despite seemingly carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders, MA feels like a smaller and more subdued album compared to Art Angels.

A late 90's state of mind is heavily noticeable, not only with the echoed-out breathy vocals and muffled-but-heavy guitars prevelant on the second half, but also in it's sense of hazy doom and resolutely poker-faced symbolism. While the first half may have the "hits", in many ways I prefer the more massaged-out "We Appreciate Power"-style second mainly because it feels more interconnected and she actually seems to be having some geniune fun with the songs as well. However, there's just no denying there's a sense of whiffed oppurtunity despite nearly all of the songs being consistently easy on the ears (though nothing I would call outstanding either- those waiting for a "Realiti", "Vanessa" or "Oblivion"-like game-changer are sure to be dissapointed), and a major suspicion that there's a key middle and penultimate track missing from the picture that would've given it a fuller and more cohesive sound overall. A few listens in I'm not much clearer on what's the overlying message here, other than humans continuously devouring the planet and themselves=BAD.

So, donno, can't really call this a misfire since there wasn't anything here I particularly disliked, but the final impact was pretty minimal to *ahem* say the least. Maybe there's a weirder version out there somewhere, or we'll just have to wait till next time when she can get a bit riskier- or clearer in what she's actually trying to achieve. This is fine for now, I guess.

Miss Anthropocene just feels like missed potential. The apocalyptic pantheon concept is too disconnected to work in the albums favor. A lot of the vocals feel overproduced to the point in which I have no idea what she is saying and it distracts from the rest of the song. I do think that instrumentally a lot of this album is solid especially on the folky "Delete forever". The hook on "Violence' is memorable and the doomsday feeling of "Before the Fever" also stands strong. These qualities save the album from being bad but they are not enough to make it good.

From rogue 02/25/2020 19:56 | #248248 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Amazing, just like I expected. Much more aligned with the Art Angels sound but more consistent and a more enjoyable sound for me throughout. Violence is such an incredible jam, I just love it.