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Tiny Vipers - "Development"
Jesy Fortino, aka Seattle's Tiny Vipers, is releasing her second Sub Pop full length, Life on Earth next week (7/7). It's one of the year's best. We've already posted "Dreamer," now take a listen to the stunning, heartbreaking "Development."
What inspired "Development"? There's a connection between urban development and the disappearance of a person. I grew up in a place surrounded by mountains and woods. When I was younger I used to hang out in the woods a lot. I still go back there to hang out and walk around. Each time I go there is less and less woods. They are building condos everywhere around Seattle now. Condos and gross Wal-Marts and Fred Meyers. I remember when I lived out there it was dark at night. You would look up at the mountains and they would be menacing and black. It is special to feel like you live at the edge of the world. You could run out at night and get lost in those woods. People would disappear there. Now I go to some of these parts and there are huge condos all the way up. And street lights. It is hard to accept that these places are gone. And with them being gone comes a new variable: The dark mysterious cold woods can be turned into Wal-Mart. Sometimes it feels like the world is moving away from the places I drew hope and spiritual inspiration from. And it is moving so fast it is hard to adapt to. It's hard to find new sources of this mystery and darkness. The evil witches and monsters that hid in those woods at night when I was a kid are nothing in comparison to the terror there now. The inspiration for "Development" comes from this: What does it mean to long for places that no longer exist? Even the bad places.
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