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Metacritic	80/100
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AllMusic
The A.V. Club	A−
Entertainment Weekly	B+
The Guardian
Mojo
NME	8/10
Pitchfork Media	8.5/10
Q
Rolling Stone
Spin	7/10

Visions is the third studio album by Canadian singer and songwriter Grimes, released on January 31, 2012. Her first since signing with 4AD, the album was recorded entirely on Apple's GarageBand software in Grimes' apartment over a three-week period. It was mixed by Grimes and her manager Sebastian Cowan at their La Brique Studio Space.Visions was streamed on the NPR website a week before it was released in the United States.

In November 2012, with the announcement that Visions was named album of the year by record shops Rough Trade and Resident, two exclusive bonus discs were made available with any purchase of the album in each shop, featuring remixes and rare tracks. The album is also labeled as bringing the DIY music scene of Mile End, Montreal to international popularity.

In 2010, Grimes released her first two albums, Geidi Primes and Halfaxa, in January and September. In 2011, she released a split EP with d'Eon called Darkbloom. The same year, Grimes began to write, record and produce what would become her third album in extended isolation over a three-week period. at home in Montreal, and described her writing process as being "equally enjoyable and tortuous". During recording, she was reclusive and insomniac with blacked out windows, for nine days, to induce hallucinations, explaining "you have no stimulation, so your subconscious starts filling in the blanks. I started to feel like I was channelling spirits. I was convinced my music was a gift from God. It was like I knew exactly what to do next, as if my songs were already written." The album was recorded entirely on Apple's GarageBand, using vocal pedals, a sampler and a Juno-G keyboard.

The music video for "Oblivion", directed by Emily Kai Bock, was shot in Montreal at Olympic Stadium and at McGill University's Molson Stadium, during a football game and a rally. The video debuted on March 2, 2012, and shows Grimes amongst shirtless frat boys, as well as in a men's locker room surrounded by weightlifting athletes. "Art gives me an outlet where I can be aggressive in a world where I usually can't be, and part of it was asserting this abstract female power in these male-dominated arenas—the video is somewhat about objectifying men. Not in a disrespectful way, though", Grimes explained. In an interview with Spin, she revealed that the song is about "going into this masculine world that is associated with sexual assault, but presented as something really welcoming and nice. The song's sort of about being—I was assaulted and I had a really hard time engaging in any types of relationship with men, because I was just so terrified of men for a while."

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