Grimes Announces New Album Miss_Anthropocene

After teasing a new release in 2018, Grimes has officially announced her upcoming album. In an Instagram post, she revealed the LP is titled Miss_Anthropocene and describes it as “a concept album about the anthropomorphic goddess of climate Change.” She hasn’t yet shared a release date.

“Each song will be a different embodiment of human extinction as depicted through a Pop star Demonology,” Grimes continued. Miss_Anthropocene will include her previously shared HANA-assisted track “We Appreciate Power,” which she says “introduced the pro-AI-propaganda girl group who embody our potential enslavement/destruction at the hands of Artificial General intelligence.”

Grimes also said she might drop “an EP or a few more singles of synth-based stuff” before the album arrives. Earlier this month, Grimes shared a demo for her new track “Pretty Dark,” along with a DIY music video. Grimes stated that “Pretty Dark” was “not a single” but instead a song from an AR musical she is currently working on.

Grimes’ last studio LP was 2015’s Art Angels. Along with “We Appreciate Power,” she shared “Play Destroy” with Poppy in 2018.

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