Her recording name was initially claimed to be a reference to Ken Grimes, an outsider artist best known for drawings of aliens. ![]() In 2011, Grimes released a split 9 track extended play with d'Eon called Darkbloom. Later in 2010, Grimes released her second album, Halfaxa, also through Arbutus. Grimes' debut album, Geidi Primes, was released on cassette in 2010 through Arbutus Records. ❞ Career 2009–13: Geidi Primes, Halfaxa, Visions We had lots of sacks of potatoes, but that’s not that weird. ![]() The main thing that’s true is the potatoes. We didn’t have a typewriter, and we weren’t trying to do Huck Finn. And then we had some ducks, but they escaped. ❝ We did actually have chickens, but we gave them away because it’s not nice to bring chickens on a boat. In 2009 Grimes attempted to sail down the Mississippi river in a houseboat, recalling the incident in 2016 she claimed most of the details were "wildly blown out of proportion": Two of her songs were released (under her real name, Claire Boucher) on Arbutus Records' Spring 2009 Sampler. In Montréal she began putting on concerts with her friends at Lab Synthèse, a performance space they started, which was located in an abandoned textile factory that Arbutus Records evolved out of. When you’re desperate, you’re going to work hard at something and not give a shit about anything else. I thought, "If I’m not enjoying my life all the time, then what’s the point? I don’t know how long I’m going to live." I decided to only do things that I liked doing, even if it meant being really poor. There was a period where two of my best friends died within a six-month period, both in traumatic ways. Then it became clear that there were too many hoops to jump through. I was into astrophysics and astronomy, but I wasn’t good enough at math and calculus to maintain that, so I got into neuroscience and psychology. However, as Grimes became a more serious endeavour for her, she began to miss a large number of classes, and began only attending to take exams, resulting in the university taking punitive actions against her and ultimately expelling her by the summer of her junior year. She told SPIN: ![]() During her studies, she began to record and perform under the name Grimes, taking the name from grime music after discovering the existence of the genre on MySpace. In 2006, at the age of 18, she moved to Montréal, Quebec to attend Montréal's McGill University to study neuroscience. Stalin murdered millions of people in the gulags and in World War II and I think there actually are redeeming qualities about Communism, but Stalin is not one of them. So this quote was not an endorsement of Communism it was actually a reference, I was making a dark joke comparing my school to the Soviet Union under Jospeh Stalin, that the freedom of creativity was being oppressed and people were being sent to the gulag for not conforming. I don’t know if people know this about me, but a lot of those people actually ended up dying from drug-related causes or mental health-related causes and this is one of the big traumas of my life, actually. Most of my best friends got expelled from high school during that time. ![]() And a lot of those people were my best friends. When I was in grade 11 or something, we got this new principal who painted over all the murals gray, and they actually went through and expelled all the worst students to try to sort of bring the GPA up. When I started at my high school, it was covered in beautiful murals, but it was kind of a crazy high school, lots of drug use and stuff and admittedly I got into a lot of trouble there. ❝ I’m sure many of you guys have noticed the online narrative that I used to be an avowed communist and I have betrayed the comrades.
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