One year ago today, Grimes's fourth LP was released. The electropop/dance album bitterly divided Sup Forums: you either loved it to death, or you despised it. The album was lauded by pundits, with most of them naming it among the best releases of the year. Averaging an average score of 8.8 out of 10, Art Angels was the critical darling of 2015, making the Top 50 in Paste and Spin; cruising into the Top 5 in The A.V. Club, Billboard, Consequence of Sound, Fact, The New York Times, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, and Slant; and garnering the Album of the Year honors from Exclaim!, NME, and Stereogum. Featuring singles such as Realiti, Flesh without Blood, Kill V. Maim, and California, Art Angels gave Grimes her highest-charting album to date in the United States, peaking at 36 on the Billboard 200, while reaching number 2 on the Independent Albums chart and topping the Alternative Albums chart. Art Angels also hit 30 in Australia, 31 in the UK, and 16 in Boucher's native Canada. Produced almost entirely in Ableton Live, Art Angels represented a departure from the Bandcamp bedroom pop of her past and opened the door to the mainstream for Grimes, who was asked to make a song for the soundtrack for Suicide Squad and invited to curate NBA 2K16. Love it or hate it, Art Angels massively impacted the indie world in 2016.
A year later, what are Sup Forums's thoughts on this now?