Miss Anthropocene

Miss Anthropocene
Original standard edition and physical covers only
Studio album by
Grimes
ReleasedFebruary 21, 2020 (2020-02-21)
Recorded2017[1]–2019[2]
Genre
Length44:40
Label4AD
Producer
Grimes chronology
Art Angels
(2015) 		Miss Anthropocene
(2020)
Revised cover
This cover as originally intended by Grimes has been used on digital versions of the standard edition since December 2020
This cover as originally intended by Grimes has been used on digital versions of the standard edition since December 2020
Singles from Miss Anthropocene
  1. "Violence"
    Released: September 5, 2019
  2. "So Heavy I Fell Through the Earth"
    Released: November 15, 2019
  3. "My Name Is Dark"
    Released: November 29, 2019
  4. "4ÆM"
    Released: December 13, 2019
  5. "Delete Forever"
    Released: February 12, 2020

Miss Anthropocene is the fifth studio album by Canadian musician Grimes. It was released on February 21, 2020, through 4AD. It marked her first album in over four years, after the release of 2015's Art Angels.[3] The album was officially announced on March 19, 2019.[4][5] The name of the album is a pun on the feminine title "Miss", and the words "misanthrope" and "Anthropocene",[6] a neologism popularised in the year 2000 by Paul J. Crutzen that was proposed to denote the current geological age the Earth is in.[7][8] The album is a loose concept album about an "anthropomorphic goddess of climate change" inspired by Roman mythology[9] and villainy.[10] Miss Anthropocene is Grimes' final album on record label 4AD, to which she has been signed since 2012.[11] The album is darker in style than Grimes' 2015 album Art Angels, containing inspiration from the sounds of industrial music.

  1. ^ @grimezsz (June 4, 2018). "well i said i'd post some snippets of new music earlier so this prob sounds terrible thru my phone recording but it's the cheesy love song i was talking about that i don't like but everyone else likes, made the instrumental w my new mellotron!pic.twitter.com/KDZLIY8OcF" (Tweet). Retrieved November 18, 2019 – via Twitter.
  2. ^ "Listen to "Zane Lowe and Grimes" posted by Zane Lowe on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved November 18, 2019.
  3. ^ Bloom, Madison; Monroe, Jazz (November 15, 2019). "Grimes Details New Album Miss Anthropocene, Shares New Song: Listen". Pitchfork. Retrieved November 18, 2019.
  4. ^ Bloom, Madison; Blais-Billie, Braudie (March 20, 2019). "Grimes Announces New Album Miss_Anthropocene". Pitchfork. Retrieved November 18, 2019.
  5. ^ Cafolla, Anna (March 20, 2019). "Grimes announces her new album Miss_Anthropocene". Dazed. Retrieved November 18, 2019.
  6. ^ "The 25 Best Pop Albums of 2020: Staff Picks". Billboard. November 15, 2019. Retrieved August 2, 2022.
  7. ^ Carrington, Damian (August 29, 2016). "The Anthropocene epoch: scientists declare dawn of human-influenced age". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved November 18, 2019.
  8. ^ "Definition of Anthropocene". merriam-webster.com. Retrieved November 18, 2019.
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