Grimes released a very good cassette called Geidi Primes. Then she released an album called Halfaxa. It was also very good. There are a lot of very good songs on both, but Grimes didn’t play any of them tonight. That’s ok, I suppose, because she played a few songs from what many people are calling the most very good album of the year, Visions. Six of them, to be exact. Grimes also played two other songs. One was called Vanessa. It was released on a split EP with d’Eon in 2011. Another one was called Phone Sex. Phone Sex is by a producer called Blood Diamonds. Grimes sings on it and it is very cheesy, and also very good.
Grimes performed tonight with two dancers. It was very strange and a little bit interesting. There were a lot of people at the venue. There were a lot of people at the venue the night before, too. Most of them were very excited. Some of them had plastic jewels affixed to their face. Grimes had plastic jewels affixed to her face, too.
Grimes played a song called Oblivion. She supplemented it with a coda that had loud bass and sparse percussion. People call it ‘dubstep’. Which is interesting, because many people do not consider dubstep to be very good. Grimes was having fun. So were we.
Sometimes Grimes made sounds with an electronic sampler. Sometimes she made melodies with an electronic piano. It was all very simple. But we didn’t mind.
BY LACHLAN KANONIUK
Photo credit: Ben Clement
LOVED: Dubstep.
HATED: Being heightened.
DRANK: Beer.
