After months of teases, Canadian singer, songwriter and producer Claire Boucher (commonly known as Grimes) finally released new music. The dark, driving track We Appreciate Power features additional vocals from longtime collaborator Hana Gabrielle Pestle (or simply Hana). It’s Grimes’s most aggressive single to date; sonically, it sits somewhere between power pop and straightforward industrial.

We Appreciate Power comes after a year full of collaborations with other artists (Janelle Monae’s Pynk, for instance) and marks Grimes’s first new song since her 2015 album Art Angels. The track is slated to be the first single off her forthcoming, still-untitled (and unplanned) fifth album.

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Werner Schlosser

I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.