Visions was fully debuted in Febuary of 2012 through 4AD. This was the first album fully released with 4AD after signing with them. In an Interview with "Pitchfork" Grimes was asked to describe it in three words she chose: Psychdelic sci-fi Twee. What Twee exactly is, is still a mystery. According to the artist it was the first album she thought people would actually listen to. Her process for creating the album was quite euphoric. When asked about it she said "I thought I should do everything I can to possibly go insane, it would probably lead to something good" She had initally gotten the idea from Hildegard Von Bingen at the time, who was a 12th century composer, who was in a clositer for 15-20 years. Basically a cage to communicate with god. So she decided to do something similar but less extreme. She would lock herself in her room and would black out all the windows and continue this for two weeks. There was claims that she had fasted for two weeks but Grimes herself disproved it. She later released the album but had felt that some of the music videos to it couldn't be released due to personal factors.