Last September it was revealed that Grimes, a.k.a Claire Boucher, had scrapped recordings for her follow-up to 2012’s breakout album Visions, in part because of the reaction of “Go,” which was originally written for Rihanna but ultimately rejected.
Boucher told the New York Times that the new album “sucked, so I threw it out and started again.”
This morning, it seems like one of the new songs, “REALiTI,” has seen the light of day, because Boucher just released a video for the track on the two-year anniversary of her tour through Asia.
“Since this is no longer gonna be on the album, I’m releasing it as a special thank you to everyone in Singapore, KL, Manila, Jakarta, HK, Shanghai, Beijing, Taipei, Seoul, Osaka, Nagoya and Tokyo who came out to the shows!” she writes in the YouTube description. “It was an honor to play with a bunch of amazing bands and travel to places I would never otherwise be able to go”
Boucher also warns about the audio quality: “This song was never finished. its a demo from ~ the lost album ~, recorded early 2013. i lost the ableton file, so its not mixed or mastered. i tried to doctor the mp3 into a listenable state, but it was poorly recorded in the first place and never meant to be heard by anyone, so its a bit of a mess haha.”
Listen and watch “REALiTi” below…