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Grimes: nine days without food, sleep or company gave me Visions. Three weeks barricaded inside a room without food, sleep or company. It sounds like the kind of thing you'd only put yourself through if you were quitting heroin or training to become a Zen monk. For Grimes, however, it's all part of the essential process of creating hypnotic weirdo pop. "Once you hit day nine, you start accessing some really crazy shit," smiles Claire Boucher, the skittish 24-year-old Canadian behind the deliberately misleading Grimes moniker.

"You have no stimulation, so your subconscious starts filling in the blanks. I started to feel like I was channelling spirits. I was convinced my music was a gift from God. Welcome to Grimes's world, where a voguish braindump of techno-mystical pop trash signifiers is given lift-off by Claire's insistence on pushing things a little bit further than your average blog idol. "I was like: 'Fuck, I could die. 'I eventually realised that by making songs I could work through these things that had been plaguing me for years' Doldrums D'eon. Remove The Lyrics From MOST Songs.

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