I know I’m a little late with this one. It took me a while to explore the whole album. My Grimes love affair has been a slow burn.

I first discovered “Kill V. Maim” through an Apple Music playlist months ago and after many (many many) re-plays of that one song, I gave the rest of the album a listen.

I didn’t really get it, but I wanted to. I found myself listening and re-listening to mostly the first half of the album, appreciating “California,” skipping past “Scream” to get to “Flesh Without Blood,” but I never really made it past that halfway mark. And then I forgot about it for a while.

Then, I’m not sure what happened, I think I was on a flight and only had a few things on my iPhone to listen to, so I revisited the album. This time, in its entirety, making it to all the songs on the back half. Something clicked then, because one by one, I fell in love with”Realiti,” “World Princess Part II,” and most of all, “Pin,” which has become my favorite and most played (over and over and over) track on the album. Even more than “Kill V. Maim.”

The album is a brilliant compilation that is imaginative, angry and scary while also beautiful and thoughtful, a little weird, a lot experimenty, and stands on its own as a unique pop record unlike any other.

I get it now.