In class when we’d been struggling to think of modern day SF music, I don’t think anyone brought up Grimes. Claire Boucher AKA Grimes has music featuring a lot of electronic/futuristic noises paired with her very high pitched, almost alien sounding voice. A New York  Times article about her wrote, “Boucher likes to say that her albums toggle between her two favorite literary genres, science fiction and fantasy. “ ‘Visions’ was sci-fi,” she says, recorded under the influence of high-tech pop stars like Beyoncé and Britney Spears.” Not to get too TMZ, but she and Elon Musk are having a baby together, and met because they’d both made the same obscure joke about artificial intelligence. I think this is really an interesting pairing, because they are both clearly invested in science fiction and the future, but one from the artistic end and the other from technology.

I’ve attached one of her music videos that has a woodland science fiction aesthetic to it. I’ve also attached some of her album covers that display her obsession with science fiction, one having post apocalyptic imagery and the other reportedly being anime she drew herself. For a sample of her futuristic sounds, I would recommend listening to her album visions (specifically the song Oblivion) (I couldn’t figure out how to link music from Spotify).