
Welcome, Art Angels!
I wish I could begin this rate under more favorable circumstances (like having a new album to rate), but it is still my pleasure to welcome you to the Grimes Rate of Misbehaving (though y'all better behave and give Artangels the 10 it deserves!). I could talk about my personal journey of coming to be obsessed with this woman, but this thread is about you and all this badass music.
I think Grimes resonates so much because she almost seems like a popstar beamed in from the future. In this future, popstars are producers and have a "do it yourself" attitude, building their songs from the ground up with no imput from the usual suspects. In this future, popstars direct their own videos (cellphone camera in hand) and draw their own manga-inspired album artwork. In this future, popstars draw from the most unlikely media sources, more specifically the world of anime, manga, and video games (I can't be the only one that hears Super Mario in World Princess II and JRPG field music in Belly of the Beat). In this future, popstars lure hipsters into a false sense of security with lo-fi avant-garde records and then ambush them with a nuclear bomb of capital P POP (while we on PJ get our collective LIFE).
Part of Grimes's charm is that she is such an unlikely popstar---her first two albums seem almost anti-pop on face value, she doesn't particularly look like a popstar, she keeps a relatively low profile, and it's hard to find any televised live performances from her (lord how I've tried). But as Art Angels made so explicitly clear, she gets pop music better than most traditional popstars and she truly has a passion for it. And even those first two experimental albums (which I'm ready for y'all to drag) show that she understood the value of a beat and a hook.
When you pair those musical values with a penchant for the weird, the crazy, and the unconventional, you get a special artist who, as The Guardian said, has made some of the most "exciting pop music in the world." So let's get to rating this music! I can already hear some of you groan, but we will rate everything, from the Dune-inspired Geidi Primes to the album we all know and love, Art Angels (and some extras).

R.U.L.E.S
+Rate every song out of 10. Half marks are allowed. Even if you hate the first two albums, you must rate them if you want to participate.
+You can only give one song an 11/10. So choose wisely.
+You can change scores if you need to. Just shoot me a PM.
+I encourage you to send as much commentary as possible. It, not my amazing writing skills, is what makes the write-ups interesting.
+Don't misbehave and by that I mean don't fucking troll.

And, of course, the music...
GEIDI PRIMES (2010)

Caladan
Sardaukar Levenbrech
Zoal, Face Dancer
Rosa
Avi
Feyd Rautha Dark Heart
Gambang
Venus In Fleurs
Grisgris
Shadout Mapes
Beast Infection
HALFAXA (2010)

Outer
Intor/Flowers
Weregild
∆∆∆∆Rasik∆∆∆∆
Heartbeats
Sagrad Прекрасный
Dragvandil
Devon
Dreamfortress
World♥Princess
† River †
Swan Song
≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈
My Sister Says The Saddest Things
Hallways
Favriel
DARKBLOOM (2011)

Orphia
Vanessa
Crystal Ball
Urban Twilight
Hedra
VISIONS (2012)

Infinite ♥ 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 (Outro)
ART ANGELS (2015)

laughing and not being normal
California
SCREAM
Flesh Without Blood
Belly Of The Beat
Kill V. Maim
Artangels
Easily
Pin
Realiti
World Princess II
Venus Fly
Life In The Vivid Dream
Butterfly
EXTRAS

Go (featuring Blood Diamonds)
Medieval Warfare
Entropy (with Bleachers)
Phone Sex (with Blood Diamonds)
Take Me Away (with Bleachers)
Angel
Ambrosia
Song For Ric
Life After Death
Christmas Song
Christmas Song II (Grinch)
Dream World (with Majical Cloudz)
PM Friendly List:
Giedi Primes
Caladan
Sardaukar Levenbrech
Zoal, Face Dancer
Rosa
Avi
Feyd Rautha Dark Heart
Gambang
Venus In Fleurs
Grisgris
Shadout Mapes
Beast Infection
Halfaxa
Outer
Intor/Flowers
Weregild
∆∆∆∆Rasik∆∆∆∆
Heartbeats
Sagrad Прекрасный
Dragvandil
Devon
Dreamfortress
World♥Princess
† River †
Swan Song
≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈
My Sister Says The Saddest Things
Hallways
Favriel
Darkbloom
Orphia
Vanessa
Crystal Ball
Urban Twilight
Hedra
Visions
Infinite ♥ 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 (Outro)
Art Angels
laughing and not being normal
California
SCREAM
Flesh Without Blood
Belly Of The Beat
Kill V. Maim
Artangels
Easily
Pin
Realiti
World Princess II
Venus Fly
Life In The Vivid Dream
Butterfly
Extras
Go (featuring Blood Diamonds)
Medieval Warfare
Entropy (with Bleachers)
Phone Sex (with Blood Diamonds)
Take Me Away (with Bleachers)
Angel
Ambrosia
Song For Ric
Life After Death
Christmas Song
Christmas Song II (Grinch)
Dream World (with Majical Cloudz)
Caladan
Sardaukar Levenbrech
Zoal, Face Dancer
Rosa
Avi
Feyd Rautha Dark Heart
Gambang
Venus In Fleurs
Grisgris
Shadout Mapes
Beast Infection
Halfaxa
Outer
Intor/Flowers
Weregild
∆∆∆∆Rasik∆∆∆∆
Heartbeats
Sagrad Прекрасный
Dragvandil
Devon
Dreamfortress
World♥Princess
† River †
Swan Song
≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈
My Sister Says The Saddest Things
Hallways
Favriel
Darkbloom
Orphia
Vanessa
Crystal Ball
Urban Twilight
Hedra
Visions
Infinite ♥ 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 (Outro)
Art Angels
laughing and not being normal
California
SCREAM
Flesh Without Blood
Belly Of The Beat
Kill V. Maim
Artangels
Easily
Pin
Realiti
World Princess II
Venus Fly
Life In The Vivid Dream
Butterfly
Extras
Go (featuring Blood Diamonds)
Medieval Warfare
Entropy (with Bleachers)
Phone Sex (with Blood Diamonds)
Take Me Away (with Bleachers)
Angel
Ambrosia
Song For Ric
Life After Death
Christmas Song
Christmas Song II (Grinch)
Dream World (with Majical Cloudz)
Deadline extended: Votes are due on May 9th.
Grimes already has had a hard year, what with the drama with her label, so I must ask that you
don't fuck it up.

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