AceShowbiz - Grimes has announced her highly anticipated return to music with a new album titled PSY OPERA, set for release later this year, in a revealing feature for Interview magazine.

The electronic artist, who legally changed her name to c after the speed of light, opened up about the shocking origin of her comeback album after completely abandoning her music career. "The CliffsNotes: I totally quit music a couple of years ago," Grimes told the magazine. "Everything I'd been going through with the public and my personal life and having kids, I was like, 'I'm just going to be a stay-at-home mom. Screw this.'"

The artist revealed that her hiatus from music was so complete that she couldn't even listen to songs without experiencing trauma. "I couldn't listen to music without getting PTSD. I was only interested in writing and reading. I started writing poetry, and then someone was like, 'Can you write a rap for this K-pop artist?' I started writing the rap, and I was like, 'This is too good. I'm keeping this because it's crazy...' It was this really cathartic thing," she explained to the publication.

The path back to music began gradually as Grimes tested her emotional connection to the medium. "I started being like, 'Do I feel emotions for music again?' And then I was like, 'Hey guys, we've got to crank out some pop songs. We can't just have an experimental spoken word album with biblical screeds," she shared in the interview.

The Interview feature, conducted by science fiction author Nnedi Okorafor, also showcased striking visuals created through an innovative collaboration. Photographer Chessa Subbiondo captured images of Grimes in a historic Blade Runner-esque building in Downtown Los Angeles, which artist Jon Rafman then processed through AI to create haunting scenes of the musician in various cinematic settings including a movie theater lobby, corporate office, and teenage bedroom.

Beyond her musical comeback, Grimes used the platform to share her nuanced perspective on artificial intelligence, particularly addressing misconceptions about human agency in technology development. Discussing her new song The Light Ages, she explained: "I actually wrote that poem a year and a half ago, before AI was this good. I was thinking about how everyone is like, 'We're building Gods.' I'm like, 'Why do you automatically assume you're so much lesser? You're literally responsible for creating AI. You're abdicating so much self-esteem and pride and responsibility and agency when you act like whatever AI is, no one has a hand in it.'"

The artist also clarified her stance on AI usage in her own creative work, stating that despite public perception, she doesn't actually use AI in her music production. She emphasized the importance of engagement with technology rather than avoidance, warning that resistance could lead to dangerous outcomes. "But this is why when people are super anti-tech, I'm like, it would actually be good if you get into it, because we have OpenAI and Grok and scarier, less safe labs because people don't want to engage," she told Okorafor.

The interview reveals an artist who has emerged from personal struggles with renewed creative purpose and a complex understanding of technology's role in society. After a decade of creating self-produced art pop that established her as one of music's most distinctive voices, Grimes appears ready to enter what she calls "the Grimes 6 era" with PSY OPERA representing both a personal and artistic evolution.

The album announcement comes fresh off her triumphant return to Coachella, where she debuted "Sign From God," a new collaboration with Cobrah, signaling her full re-emergence into the music landscape after her self-imposed exile from the industry.