Grimes

Grimes sounds like she built an entire world in a Montreal studio, where synthesizers blend with voices that seem to float between two dimensions. Her music doesn’t stick to one style: there are flashes of dream pop in tracks like Genesis, but also raw electronic beats reminiscent of 80s synth-pop, all wrapped in lyrics that play with science fiction and feminism. This isn’t background music; it’s meant to be immersed in, as if each track were a chapter of a story that’s still unfolding.

In 2012, with Visions, she made the leap that took her from playing in garages to filling stages. The album didn’t just earn her a Juno Award for Best Electronic Album in Canada—it proved she could create something that felt both fresh and inevitable. Songs like Oblivion have that rare quality of being intimate and epic at once, as if the bass resonated down an endless hallway. Then came Art Angels in 2015, where she pushed her sound even further, blending pop with hints of hip hop and R&B, almost as if she were testing how far she could stretch the limits of what was considered "pop music."