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“Flesh Without Blood” by Grimes
“Flesh Without Blood” by Grimes appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2015 and 2025. Its best result is #71 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2015. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #365 alternative song of 2015.
"Flesh Without Blood" fired the starting gun for Art Angels on October 26, 2015: the lead single from the Canadian auteur's fourth album, released on 4AD and written and produced by Grimes alone. It's dance-pop with a dance-rock strut, and it arrived the same day as a two-song video that splices it together with "Life in the Vivid Dream", another Art Angels cut.
The press assumed it was a song about a man. Grimes set them straight on Twitter: it's about a platonic friendship with a woman, and the sting of being let down by someone you once looked up to. That assumption, she said, showed how the press genders her lyrics, and she added that she'd given up writing love songs. A character in the video, Rococo Basilisk, nods to the Roko's basilisk thought experiment and the Rococo art movement.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 71 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2015 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 709 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century | 909 |
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