"I didn't want to tour it."*Grimes* became a phenomenon with 2012's studio album 'Visions', a powerful and enormously imaginative piece of work.
Since then, though, fresh material has been rather difficult to come by. Completing work on an album's worth of new songs, Grimes decided to cancel the LP rather than release it.
Speculation mounted that the decision was prompted by the negative reaction to 'Go', a Blood Diamonds collaboration which was intended for Rihanna before being released as a standalone single last year.
Posting a note on Tumblr, Grimes denied this. "The album was scrapped cuz it was depressing and I didn't want to tour it," she wrote. "I may release it one day. I throw out music all the time, i have almost 1000 gigs of unreleased music on my hard drive. I just want the next album to be as good as possible. 'Go' was never on the album anyway, it is a collaboration with a close friend that was released for fans as a 'Thank you' for waiting since my album was being delayed."
"There are only about 4 people on earth who have heard my new music. People's opinions do not factor into my process. That is all, and hopefully this helps... I'm really not that sad or insecure of a person."
Grimes recently posted a demo version of new song 'REALiTi' online – check it out now.
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