Overview
- On Friday, October 9, 2026, Grimes released the single “Accelerando” with an accompanying video and trailer to introduce her concept album Psy Opera.
- Psy Opera is billed as an AI-inspired concept record that will address topics from the AI debate to religion, war, personal history and online culture.
- Grimes has insisted the music was not made with generative AI, though she acknowledged using the tool Deepseek to generate lyrics for one song.
- The single and trailer were created by a large human team over many months, the artist cited roughly 70 people and collaborators such as VADAKIN on the track.
- Psy Opera will be Grimes’s first full-length in six years and her first release on her own Nazgul Recording LLC after leaving Columbia, with no full album release date announced yet.