LISTEN: Grimes Shares New Acoustic-Driven Single “Delete Forever”

It’s the fourth song to be released from her forthcoming “Miss Anthropocene,” out next Friday.
LISTEN: Grimes Shares New Acoustic-Driven Single “Delete Forever”

It’s the fourth song to be released from her forthcoming “Miss Anthropocene,” out next Friday.

Words: Mike LeSuer

photo by Daniel Cavazos

February 12, 2020

Grimes / photo by Daniel Cavazos

Grimes has been in the news plenty lately, though not nearly enough of this exposure has been in connection to her long-anticipated follow-up to 2015’s Art Angels. With the release of Miss Anthropocene only a week away, Claire Boucher is sharing one more single from her fifth studio album, which surprisingly takes the form of an acoustic-driven ballad about the opioid epidemic.

“I feel like it ends up having this sort of like ‘Wonderwall’ kind of vibe or something,” she told Zane Lowe on his Beats 1 show this morning, where “Delete Forever” was introduced, also noting that she wrote it immediately after learning of the death of Lil Peep. “It’s a pretty bummer song… I’ve had quite a few friends pass away—in particular, one friend when I was eighteen passed away from complications related to opioid addiction. Artists keep dying and stuff so I wrote this song on the night Lil Peep died.”

Stream the characteristically experimental track—which also includes horns, banjo, and a heavy early-aughts contemporary pop influence—and watch Boucher’s appearance on Beats 1 below. Brace yourself for Miss Anthropocene’s release next Friday via 4AD.