Visions (studio album) by Grimes

Visions by Grimes
Year: 2012
Release date: 2012-01-31
Overall rank: 595th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 722 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 10 albums of 2012 (10th)
Award Top 100 albums of the 2010s (84th)
Award Top 1,000 albums of all time (595th)

Grimes bestography

Visions is ranked 2nd best out of 6 albums by Grimes on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Grimes is Art Angels which is ranked number 437 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 4,056.

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2025cicadelicFasterLouder Best Albums 201242/50 -
2025jdizzle123456Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s32/10014
2025 Tha1ChiefRockaTop 100 Greatest Music Albums41/10060
2025 zags7000Top 100 Music Albums of 20124/1005
2025stangetzawayTop 100 Music Albums of the 2010s96/1001
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2025cicadelicBayern 2 Zündfunk Die Alben des Jahres 201239/60 -
2025 imacgillTop 100 Music Albums of the 2010s21/10016
2025 Patman360Top 100 Music Albums of 201252/1002
2025lanadeleswiftTop 81 Music Albums of 201224/814
2025LittleM1971Top 99 Music Albums of 201291/990
2025 imimesisTop 100 Music Albums of the 2010s18/10017
2025 eclabTop 100 Music Albums of the 2010s39/10012
2025 MontpejoTop 100 Music Albums of the 2010s46/10011
2025mostlymorTop 30 Music Albums of 201211/303
2025rlang36Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s36/10013
Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 496
Total Rank Score: The total rank score. 2,949

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77/100 (from 722 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.8/100, a mean average of 75.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.5.

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75/100
From 11/15/2022 10:36
Album Rating: 74.55
(820/11)


1.Infinite ♡ Without Fulfillment (Intro). N/a
2.Genesis. 71
3.Oblivion. 84
4.Eight. 68
5.Circumambient. 83
6.Vowels = Space And Time. 79
7.Visiting Statue. 70
8.Be A Body (侘寂). 77
9.Colour Of Moonlight (Antiochus). 73
10.Symphonia IX (My Wait Is U). 68
11.Nightmusic. 67
12.Skin. 80
13.Know The Way (Outro). N/a. (62). N/a
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80/100
From 09/06/2022 13:56
Incrível o poder criativo e a independência dela.
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Rating:  
90/100
From 11/04/2020 19:36
gooooooood pop album, cant wait to see the development for the next grimes albums
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85/100
From 09/21/2020 23:12
Despite what I might have said after my first couple of listens this is a great album with no weak tracks. Best enjoyed with headphones, as is all her work.
Fave songs: Genesis, Oblivion, Visiting Statue
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From 06/24/2020 10:35
Fav. Tracks: Infinite ♡ Without Fulfillment (Intro), Genesis, Be A Body (侘寂).
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90/100
From 03/22/2020 09:29
Hits that sweet spot, both an album that captures a very certain moment in musical time but still sounds just as incredibly crisp and engrossing nearly a decade later. Not as outright weird or foreboding as her previous mixtapes could get, but the sounds feeling much more pointed and interwoven work in the album's favor- the song's start to really evoke an actual purpose rather than just conjuring up a vague mood. She would continue to get better, but this album is a special little something on it's own right.
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90/100
From 01/01/2020 19:55
Beautifully engaging dreamy pop record. The almost entirety of the album is filled with pristine 9s and 10s before fizzling out a bit at the end. Easily a top album of the decade for me

Favorite tracks: Genesis, Oblivion, Vowels = Space and Time
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90/100
From 11/05/2018 23:42
I’ve put a lot of thought in Grimes’ music lately: What is her best album? Where do I place her sound on the genre spectrum? Is this really new or just a re-interpretation of ‘90s electronic music? Part of what makes it so difficult is that it is such new music; I think in hindsight I could answer these answers with more certainty, but one thing is for sure: Grimes deserves at least one 10/10.
Well, I’ve come to the conclusion (which will probably change over time) that it is this one, because it lies exactly in between the experimental sound of her 2010 releases and the straight up pop from Art Angels.
It’s really beautiful to see how this type of music has gotten such a large mainstream appeal, and I think that that is proof too of how incredible this album is: she immersed this purely experimental and electronic sound in a verse-chorus-verse jacket, and proved that all that you need to make accessible music is a heavy backbeat.
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90/100
From 12/22/2017 23:05
An amazing experimental album that pushes the boundaries with dream lade-den beats and ethereal echo vocals. It moves through pure darkness and pure light at various points in the album.
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90/100
From 08/23/2017 11:55
It could well be the case that my idea of Claire Boucher being a self-made pop star, whose look, sound and artwork originated in her Toronto bedroom, is a mere romantic fantasy and that she's just as manufactured as the rest of them (unlikely, but I have been surprised before), but regardless, this still sounds as original and innovative as it did back in 2012. Oblivion is, alongside Frank Ocean's Pyramids, my favourite song of the past decade, yet it surprises how neatly it fits among more leftfield and experimental stuff like Eight or Be A Body.
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