Grimes reflects on locking herself away to make ‘Visions’: “I did truly go insane”

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Claire Boucher made the 2012 album locked away in a bedroom for weeks with the windows blacked out Grimes has reflected on the making of her 2012 album ‘Visions’, for which she famously said she locked herself in her room for two weeks to create.

The record was her first release after signing with legendary indie label 4AD and followed her 2010 album ‘Halfaxa’. Speaking to Pitchfork, Grimes (real name Claire Boucher) looked back on the making of ‘Visions’, saying: “I think I just wanted to go insane.

I was just like, ‘I should do everything I can to actually go insane, it will probably lead to something good’.” She continued to explain that she had been “really into” 12th-century composer Hildegard Von Bingen at the time, who inspired her