Album: Miss Anthropocene by Grimes (2020)
Genre: Synthpop | Mood: Dreamy
Record Label: 4AD
Format: Album

Description: Miss Anthropocene (originally announced and stylized as Miss_Anthrop0cene) is the fifth studio album by Canadian musician Grimes, released on February 21, 2020. It was officially announced on March 19, 2019. The album's name is a pun on the feminine title "Miss", and the words "misanthrope" and "Anthropocene", a neologism popularised in the year 2000 by Paul J. Crutzen that was proposed to denote the current geological age the Earth is in. The album is a loose concept album about an "anthropomorphic goddess of climate change" inspired by Roman mythology and villainy. Miss Anthropocene is Grimes' final album on record label 4AD, to which she has been signed since 2012. The album is darker in style than Grimes' 2015 album Art Angels, containing inspiration from the sounds of nu metal and ethereal wave.

Artist Background: Claire Boucher (born March 17, 1988), better known by her stage name Grimes, is a Canadian artist, musician, and music video director. A native of Vancouver, Grimes began recording experimental music while attending McGill University in Montréal, where she became involved with the underground electronic and industrial music scene. In 2010 she released her debut album, Geidi Primes through Arbutus Records (based in Montréal, Québec), followed by Halfaxa (2010). In late 2011, she announced t... Part of the Vancouver, Canada music scene. Emerged in the contemporary era. Associated with Synthpop movement. Known for Electronic style.

Related Artists: Arca, Sky Ferreira, Björk

Music Scene: Part of the Vancouver, Canada music scene. Emerged in the contemporary era. Associated with Synthpop movement. Known for Electronic style.

Tags: Synthpop, Dreamy, 2020s, Album, 4AD


Miss Anthropocene (originally announced and stylized as Miss_Anthrop0cene) is the fifth studio album by Canadian musician Grimes, released on February 21, 2020. It was officially announced on March 19, 2019. The album's name is a pun on the feminine title "Miss", and the words "misanthrope" and "Anthropocene", a neologism popularised in the year 2000 by Paul J. Crutzen that was proposed to denote the current geological age the Earth is in. The album is a loose concept album about an "anthropomorphic goddess of climate change" inspired by Roman mythology and villainy. Miss Anthropocene is Grimes' final album on record label 4AD, to which she has been signed since 2012. The album is darker in style than Grimes' 2015 album Art Angels, containing inspiration from the sounds of nu metal and ethereal wave.

Miss Anthropocene

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