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Cat: 4AD 0211LP. Rel: 24 Feb 20
Pop

Side 1 - Track 1. So Heavy I Fell Through The Earth Side 1 - Track 2. Darkseid (with PAN) Side 1 - Track 3. Delete Forever Side 1 - Track 4. Violence (with I_o) Side 1 - Track 5. 4AEM Side 2 - Track 1. New Gods Side 2 - Track 2. My Name Is Dark Side 2 - Track 3. You'll Miss Me When I'm Not Around Side 2 - Track 4. Before The Fever Side 2 - Track 5. IDORU

It's hard not to be impressed by everything Grimes touches. From the moment this album's trippy downtempo titular opener emerges from submerged depths of sound you know the latest from the Canadian is going to be a special moment in pop. As if to accentuate our point, "Delete Forever", two tracks later, introduces acoustic guitar tips while still retaining deep timbre and utilising effects to hypnotic ends on those hummed vocal loops. "IDORU", which closes out the record, feels far more playful, simple keyboard and whispered choral lyricism introduced with a backing track of bird song, before broken club beats fall in. It might be most fitting to finish a write up on the aptly-titled "You'll Miss Me When I'm Not Around", its guttural bass guitars and EDM-leaning vocal stabs not the only things reminding us the world would be weaker without this one.