Grimes Announces Psyopera Album and Accelerando Single

Grimes has announced her new album, Psyopera, alongside the single Accelerando. The project will mark the artist's first album since 2020's Miss Anthropocene and will be the first released through her own record label, Nazgul Recording LLC. The first track, Accelerando, was recorded in collaboration with VADAKIN.

Grimes stated that the album will not include songs about Elon Musk. Claire Boucher and Musk announced their separation in September 2021 after three years together, and they share three children: X Æ A-Xii, Exa Dark Sideræl Musk, and Techno Mechanicus. Grimes hinted that Psyopera could be split into two parts, with the second part being entirely personal.

Listeners were informed that no artificial intelligence was used to create the songs on the album. Grimes previously released a song titled Artificial Angels, written from the perspective of artificial intelligence. Additionally, Boucher and CreateSafe previously partnered with Slipstream to make more than 200 Grimes AI songs available to content creators.