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Oct 26, 2015 By Christopher Roberts Grimes

Grimes (aka Claire Boucher) has long been teasing her new album and it has been expected that it would come out this fall. Last week she announced the album title, Art Angels, and revealed its album cover. Now she has shared a combined video for two songs on the record: “Flesh Without Blood” and “Life in the Vivid Dream.” She’s also announced that the album will be out digitally on November 6 via 4AD (with a physical version coming December 11). Finally, she’s shared the album’s tracklist, which includes a guest spot from Janelle Monáe.

Grimes wrote, directed, edited, colored, and art-directed the video herself. Her brother Mac Boucher, was the cinematographer and creative consultant. It includes many wardrobe changes, such as Grimes in a Marie Antoinette outfit. “Flesh Without Blood” is the main focus, as “Life in the Vivid Dream” is very short. “Flesh Without Blood” is Grimes’ most outwardly mainstream pop song. Will it bring her a bigger audience or will it alienate her core fans for being too pop, or perhaps some combination of the two?

Check out the video below, followed by the album’s tracklist and Grimes’ upcoming tour dates.

Art Angels Tracklist:

1. laughing and not being normal
2. California
3. SCREAM ft. Aristophanes
4. Flesh without Blood
5. Belly of the beat
6. Kill V. Maim
7. Artangels
8. Easily
9. Pin
10. Realiti
11. World Princess part II
12. Venus Fly ft. Janelle Monáe
13. Life in the Vivid Dream
14. Butterfly

Grimes Tour Dates:

10-26 Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore *
10-27 Portland, OR - Wonder *
10-28 Seattle, WA - The Showbox *
10-31 San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore
11-02 Los Angeles, CA - Mayan
11-04 New York City, NY - Guggenheim
11-07 Austin, TX - Fun Fun Fun Festival
11-09 New Orleans, LA - Republic
11-10 Nashville, TN - Marathon Music Works
11-11 Atlanta, GA - Buckhead Theatre
11-13 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
11-14 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
11-16 New York, NY - Terminal 5
11-20 Boston, MA - Paradise
11-21 Montreal, Quebec - Metropolis
11-22 Toronto, Ontario - Danforth
11-25 Chicago, IL - Metro
02-17 Berlin, Germany - Astra ^
02-18 Hamburg, Germany - Docks ^
02-20 Frankfurt, Germany - Gibson ^
02-21 Cologne, Germany - Live Music Hall ^
02-23 Oslo, Norway - Rockefeller ^
02-24 Stockholm, Sweden - Munchen Brewery ^
02-26 Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega ^
02-28 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso ^
02-29 Utrecht, Netherlands - Tivoli ^
03-02 Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Den Atelier ^
03-03 Brussels, Belgium - AB ^
03-04 Paris, France - Trianon ^
03-06 Bristol, England - Anson Rooms ^
03-07 Leeds, England - Beckett Uni ^
03-08 Nottingham, England - Rock City ^
03-10 London, England - O2 Brixton Academy ^
03-11 Birmingham, England - Institute ^
03-12 Manchester, England - Academy ^
03-13 Glasgow, Scotland - ABC ^
03-15 Dublin, Ireland - Olympia ^
* with Nicole Dollanganger

^ with HANA