{"id":2947,"date":"2015-10-08T23:21:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T03:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=2947"},"modified":"2015-10-08T23:21:35","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T03:21:35","slug":"there-are-mountains-to-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/08\/there-are-mountains-to-climb\/","title":{"rendered":"there are mountains to climb"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past week or two I seem to have developed a slight<\/del> overwhelming obsession for the music of Grimes, an electronic dance music artist from Vancouver. I\u2019m not at all ashamed to admit that, like the old person that I am, I learned about her from reading an article in the New Yorker<\/em><\/a>. It\u2019s not a little ironic that as it\u2019s become easier and easier to hear new music online I find myself listening to fewer and fewer new bands, and mostly default to my old standbys. There\u2019s the old thing I think, and the busy job thing for sure, but also perhaps the there’s so much music out there right now where to even begin? thing.<\/p>\n

Anyway, so I\u2019m reading the New Yorker,<\/em> about 4 issues behind as usual (I had this one week in early August when I was totally caught up, it\u2019s like a unicorn week of summer). I always glance at the music articles but this one was longer than usual which caught my eye. I read for a bit and learned that she also produces and engineers her own tracks \u2014 she compared herself to Phil Spector and claims Grimes is the girl group. I also learned that she\u2019s on 4AD, one of the few labels left for which I\u2019ll always at least give a listen to almost anything they put out.<\/p>\n

So I start hunting around online and the first thing I find is this track, which apparently she released online earlier this year when it was scrapped from plans for a new album:<\/p>\n