Personally, I fell in love with Mitski's music in 2016 with Puberty 2. It's an absolutely devastating album that hit me at a time when I was at an emotional low. Her older work is similarly...
Time for a pivot? Mitski announced her new album The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We over the weekend in simple, plainspoken fashion, without any of the pageantry that characterized 2022’s Laurel Hell and its accompanying tour. The album’s lead single is similarly understated, though not without some grand flourishes.
Personally, I fell in love with Mitski's music in 2016 with Puberty 2. It's an absolutely devastating album that hit me at a time when I was at an emotional low. Her older work is similarly gut-punching, too: songs like Francis Forever, First Love / Late Spring, and Last Words of a Shooting Star I adore.
But, while I loved the singles for her 2018 followup Be The Cowboy, I wasn't the biggest fan of the deep cuts? (I didn't really vibe with the album concept of 14 short songs -- many felt unfinished to me? Plus, she went in some fuzzy, raw, avant-garde directions with the production and songwriting, similar to some of her pre-Puberty 2 work. Not really my vibe!) Plus, 2022's Laurel Hell felt... underwhelming and forgettable to me? I've sort of fell off the Mitski train in recent years, which is sort of ironic when she's bigger than ever after going viral on TikTok.
But this lead single... goodness me. I'm much more of a fan of soft, comforting, lush, enveloping production and this song feels tailor-made for me. It's everything that Be The Cowboy's production wasn't. The warm, choral background vocals... mwah. I'm getting chills for the first time in quite a while!!!
Personally, I fell in love with Mitski's music in 2016 with Puberty 2. It's an absolutely devastating album that hit me at a time when I was at an emotional low. Her older work is similarly gut-punching, too: songs like Francis Forever, First Love / Late Spring, and Last Words of a Shooting Star I adore.
But, while I loved the singles for her 2018 followup Be The Cowboy, I wasn't the biggest fan of the deep cuts? (I didn't really vibe with the album concept of 14 short songs -- many felt unfinished to me? Plus, she went in some fuzzy, raw, avant-garde directions with the production and songwriting, similar to some of her pre-Puberty 2 work. Not really my vibe!) Plus, 2022's Laurel Hell felt... underwhelming and forgettable to me? I've sort of fell off the Mitski train in recent years, which is sort of ironic when she's bigger than ever after going viral on TikTok.
But this lead single... goodness me. I'm much more of a fan of soft, comforting, lush, enveloping production and this song feels tailor-made for me. It's everything that Be The Cowboy's production wasn't. The warm, choral background vocals... mwah. I'm getting chills for the first time in quite a while!!!