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Susanne Sundfør and John Grant collaborate on Mountaineers
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 25 July 2017
I think we can all agree without any controversy whatsoever that Susanne Sundfør is one of the greatest artists of the last decade. Good, I’m glad you concur. And imagine if she collaborated with the also brilliant John Grant. Wouldn’t that be great! Yes, it would. Well, I have some great news for you: that is a thing that has happened.
The latest single from Sundfør’s upcoming ‘Music For People In Trouble’ album, due out on 25 Aug, is her collaboration with Grant, ‘Mountineers’.
“‘Mountaineers’ is a song I wrote after spending a week at a retreat with The Dark Mountain Project and Way Of Nature, and is inspired by a poem by the American poet Robinson Jeffers, called ‘Rearmament'”, says Sundfør. “It’s about the importance of seeing the beauty in things in order to find purpose and strength in life”.
Of Sundfør, Grant adds: “She blows my mind with her incredible voice”.
Here’s the song. Here it is:
