Listen: Grimes' "4ÆM"

All hail Miss Anthropocene! A chaotic, if familiar, excursion into the realm of arty electronic pop, Claire Boucher's latest effort finds the pop experimenter exploring sombre themes of annihilation and apocalypse that displays an interesting tapestry of giddy electronic beats (Violence) and rumbling synths. It's a colourful blast of pop music, folky guitar strums (Delete Forever) and industrial sonic textures (Darkseid), culminating in a perfect melting point of futuristic — at times weird but beautiful and meticulous nonetheless — sounds. It all leads to 4ÆM, a stratospheric dancefloor banger where Grimes dresses up the innovative track with a heady cocktail of ethereal ambience and frenzied rhythms built around a sped-up vocal sample pulled out of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Deewani Mastani from Bajirao Mastani — she even went on to call her creation a "cyberpunk interpretation of the [...] movie from Mastani's perspective." Needless to say, it's a pure adrenaline shot to the heart.