Grimes Announces Album Title

Album expected to be released later this month; check out the cover art below too

Grimes has confirmed the name of her new album, via an Instagram post. The album will be called Art Angels and was announced with the colourful cover art which you can see above.

Grimes, aka Claire Boucher, also confirmed in the post that she will release a new video next week. There is no set release date for the album yet but Boucher has previously stated that it would be released this month. In a recent interview with Q, Boucher shared some more information about the album mentioning Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel and The Godfather among points of reference. “One song on the album, ‘Kill V Maim’, is written from the perspective of Al Pacino in The Godfather Pt 2, she said. “Except he’s a vampire who can switch gender and travel through space.”

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