Mitski

guess she's more popular overseas; still tix available for the show in my town.

def agree w/ brad's comment upthread that she's v funny.

Yeah, I have feelings about this video. Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but if I am, I don't want to be right.

(Love/partnership/etc looks appealing from afar, then when you see it on full display you realize how absurd and ridiculous it is.)

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, April 13, 2016 9:32 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

don't forget the racial aspect

The racial aspect seems like the key element in it (I saw a story online where she acknowledges this). Japanese woman spurned by clean-cut white American boy who first leads her on

Yeah, I picked up on that too after I read the story, but initially I thought she really captured and condensed the timeline of "this person I like likes me" -> "oh no, this person is with someone else now" -> "look at those assholes!"

lol I guess that's a difference between you and me in that that's literally the first thing i noticed 10 seconds in

don't forget the racial aspect

― 龜, Friday, April 15, 2016 4:12 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^

https://soundcloud.com/deadoceans/mitski-happy-1

I love the sound of that sax.

shove off radiohead, this is more like it

the ending is the most wonderfully antisocial thing i've heard all year <3

this album's going to be great

:'D

this is so good

so so crushed by "i bet on losing dogs"

Yeah it's a nice listen, this.

WHERE

disappointed tbh

will listen to the album properly when it's released

so so crushed by "i bet on losing dogs"

Wow, you are not wrong.

This track is crushing me this week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_hDHm9MD0I

(which, duh, has already been posted. Should have scrolled farther up first)

I'll want to spend some time with the new album before taking about it, but it's streaming now: http://www.npr.org/2016/06/01/480340979/first-listen-mitski-puberty-2

:'D

album is very good

^^^^

I haven't hyped anything to myself as much in ages, but I'm not disappointed. It's wonderful. I just wish it was like, ten minutes longer.

Getting some very Cardigans vibes from Thursday Girl and Crack Baby.

A buncha US East Coast gigs sold out quick.

Omg, "My Body's Made of Crushed Little Stars"

Yes! That is a stand-out. I also loved I Bet On Losing Dogs. So powerful.

I tried getting tickets to see her over a month before her last gig in London and they'd sold out! Bought my tickets for October already.

as i said upthread "i bet on losing dogs" kills me

shit this is so good

Tracks 4-8 are untouchable.

seriously

This is cool. I really like Fireworks.

The Singles Jukebox reviews her single tomorrow.

Quite a twist in the video for Happy.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CkjiKnBVEAIRpBU.jpg

'Sup, Spin.

hm, that's amazing. "My Body's Made of Crushed Little Stars" is an incredible song, the only standout for me so far. But it'll take some time with the rest. That song though, boy.

first song sounds like Xiu Xiu

almost all of this lady's influences seem pretty 1990s, this album could've come out when i was in college. not a bad thing. just not entirely what i expected.

second track sounds like late-70s Wire

it couldn't have come out in the 90s - the production is quite hi-tech

anyway it's bloody amazing yeah

i'm not so keen on tracks 2 and 3 but they're still at least good. the rest is fucking brilliant.

Totally sounds like a Greg Saunier production

"once more to see you" kinda interrupts the flow in a way that i find really distracting, otherwise i love everything else about this record

late to this, but it's beautiful <3

'dan the dancer' (the wire-a-like) is the one i'm not really sold on, because it doesn't really resolve, but maybe that's the point. colin newman would approve. i don't mind 'once more to see you' so much coz it's too lovely to hate on, if a bit weirdly sequenced

everything from 'fireworks' onward is straight fire incredible album and perfectly sequenced

I'm in

The whole record just sounds really great on big speakers too

Never thought I'd put together a sentence like this, but when there Weezer-y guitars kick in on Your Best American Girl it's like =D

is she particularly worth seeing live? playing a likely to be sold out show this saturday at a venue that is really uncomfortable when crowded... love the album btw

she is absolutely worth seeing live

yep

i liked her live more than my friends did, but if you love the album you'll prob love the show.

by that do you mean be the cowboy or laurel hell

lol c'mon

I mean I assume you were talking about Be The Cowboy but this is ILX where people will say all kinds of things

well yes

This new one feels more solid than Laurel Hell, the songs are more composed, more dramatic, less wispy, remains to be seen how memorable they are though.

https://x.com/chartdata/status/1708936082828693874?s=20

goddamn x dot com!

Mitski earns her first ever entry on the Hot 100 this week with "My Love Mine All Mine". pic.twitter.com/3azZ4cDquY

— chart data (@chartdata) October 2, 2023

She's also snuck into the UK top 40 this week for the first time with aforementioned pophit. It seems rather muted to be her crossover?, but, gratifying to see her doing so well

And now she's no.15 in the UK which is quite nice and entirely down to tiktok apparently etc

getting around to this and the drums on this are so plodding and inert, just that really static motionless style that plagues so many modern singer-songwriter albums

Loved a lot of her albums front to back bit this one not so much. but good lord the first bit of bug like an angel, and good lord the end of the deal. Holy moly

JFC i just attempted to get tickets for her show in berkeley in september and they only made 'official platinum' (ie: randomly overpriced) tickets available and the asking was $400 for most seats? Mitski appears to have lost her mind. It sold out too.

Maybe not so crazy, then.