I am allowed to compare male artists to male artists though?
it's mostly the melodic style and vocal delivery, compare Mitski "Happy" to St. Vincent "Strange Mercy":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ0O2vDT0VE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JwXCBi-Eh8
― niels, Saturday, 29 October 2016 13:28 (seven years ago) link
Saw her in Durham, NC tonight. No tense vibes, and the crowd adored her. Power trio format for most of the show, with Mitski on bass sounding like she'd borrowed her rig from Bob Weston. She was magnetic. Plus she earned my goodwill forever for explicitly declining to play the obligatory encore. "When it's over, it's over... let's no go through that social ritual" (or words to that effect).
― JRN, Thursday, 17 November 2016 05:38 (seven years ago) link
can't stop listening to your best american girl
― Treeship, Sunday, 20 November 2016 16:48 (seven years ago) link
Finally shelled out for this after spinning it on Spotify all the time. Does anyone else find the distorted guitar timbres really harsh and digital-sounding? I really like the tunes and voice but I don't think I understand the production choices on this album.
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Monday, 16 January 2017 20:11 (seven years ago) link
it really works on my body's made of crushed little stars, but otherwise I agree with you- the rest of the album sounds very cold.
― flappy bird, Monday, 16 January 2017 20:25 (seven years ago) link
it is a bit hard on the ears
much contemporary music is...
― niels, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 17:37 (seven years ago) link
Finally I like a song within the ILM top 50!I've just heard Your Best American Girl today, feel like it sounds really like something I've listened to within the past year or so, but what??
― kinder, Friday, 3 February 2017 23:44 (seven years ago) link
and I don't mean Weezer
― kinder, Friday, 3 February 2017 23:47 (seven years ago) link
Sister by Angel Olsen?
― Treeship, Saturday, 4 February 2017 03:19 (seven years ago) link
Two Step by Throwing Muses?
― MarkoP, Saturday, 4 February 2017 03:35 (seven years ago) link
Crying?
― I Am In Atlanta And Thug Is Young (imago), Saturday, 4 February 2017 03:37 (seven years ago) link
Crying is dope
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 4 February 2017 06:03 (seven years ago) link
def
― flappy bird, Saturday, 4 February 2017 06:18 (seven years ago) link
That song fireworks
― Treeship, Saturday, 13 May 2017 16:54 (six years ago) link
one of my favourites
― kinder, Saturday, 13 May 2017 17:03 (six years ago) link
as someone already said upthread, i believe, the run from Fireworks to Crushed Little Stars is stop-you-in-your-tracks good.
― alpine static, Saturday, 13 May 2017 17:53 (six years ago) link
i like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnhTkFl5Imw
― nxd, Friday, 4 May 2018 08:49 (five years ago) link
sounds like first album charli xcx
yeah i really like that too. also because i've always felt i would like xiu xiu more if it wasn't for JS' voice.
― Roz, Saturday, 5 May 2018 04:12 (five years ago) link
New album Be The Cowboy in August. First single "Geyser" today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zdFZJf-B90
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 May 2018 15:43 (five years ago) link
second half of that is incredible jeez
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 14 May 2018 15:57 (five years ago) link
uh wow
― ufo, Monday, 14 May 2018 16:06 (five years ago) link
!
― imago, Monday, 14 May 2018 16:11 (five years ago) link
Some confluence with Crying maybe
― imago, Monday, 14 May 2018 16:12 (five years ago) link
Mitski Mitski Mitski
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 14 May 2018 16:21 (five years ago) link
https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/5af65a3e09d5ee50c49e8b98/master/pass/doc150.lp.fc.cover.1600%20(2).jpg
01 Geyser02 Why Didn’t You Stop Me03 Old Friend04 A Pearl05 Lonesome Love06 Remember My Name07 Me and My Husband08 Come Into the Water09 Nobody10 Pink in the Night11 A Horse Named Cold Air12 Washing Machine Heart13 Blue Light14 Two Slow Dancers
― flappy bird, Monday, 14 May 2018 16:26 (five years ago) link
Yessss!
― cajunsunday, Monday, 14 May 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
I'm so excited for this. The single is brilliant.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 04:29 (five years ago) link
"Geyser" is nuts, I'm into it. I like the soundtrack tune w/ Xiu Xiu a lot too.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 15 May 2018 13:02 (five years ago) link
On first listen it's the Xiu Xiu tune that positively nuts for, but Geyser too is great. Stoked.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 13:03 (five years ago) link
I assumed that Geyser must've been a mid-album tune because of the way it starts. It's so impressive.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Monday, 21 May 2018 06:34 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qooWnw5rEcI
― ufo, Tuesday, 26 June 2018 14:18 (five years ago) link
at some point this song turns into saint etienne
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 14:21 (five years ago) link
i'm ecstatic
I like how she’s turned into a big ol ham in her videos
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 14:26 (five years ago) link
I Love everything about this. The last 45 seconds in particular is a real moment.
Feel like this album could well be a classic.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 26 June 2018 14:27 (five years ago) link
omg I cannot express how much I love this
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 02:31 (five years ago) link
Song of the year for me at this point. That final key change!
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 27 June 2018 04:04 (five years ago) link
jaysus this is so good. video too
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 05:44 (five years ago) link
lol it's finally the k.d. lang / stereolab crossover that we never realised we needed!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 11:58 (five years ago) link
Don't Cry for Mitski: Can the most emotional indie songwriter out there move on with her musical life without breaking hearts?
― flappy bird, Thursday, 12 July 2018 16:13 (five years ago) link
She's 27?!
― kinder, Thursday, 12 July 2018 22:05 (five years ago) link
How old did you think she was? Sounds about right to me
― calstars, Thursday, 12 July 2018 22:57 (five years ago) link
Yeah, idk why that would be surprising.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 12 July 2018 23:55 (five years ago) link
because her puberty album was just a few years ago, LOL!
― rip van wanko, Friday, 13 July 2018 03:25 (five years ago) link
fans of mitski, her producer Patrick recorded the new trust fund album. he is on the cover. its fun and silly. https://trustfund.bandcamp.com/album/bringing-the-backline
― meaulnes, Friday, 13 July 2018 12:39 (five years ago) link
One of the best albums of the year - I've sung its praises fruitlessly on two other threads - maybe it'll get more traction here. They did a great job supporting Mitski a couple years back
― imago, Friday, 13 July 2018 13:40 (five years ago) link
ha I think 27 just seems impossibly young to me. especially to have several albums. but I guess it's not that weird! I just feel like I have achieved nothing of worth!
― kinder, Friday, 13 July 2018 15:49 (five years ago) link
Bury me at makeout creek is very very good.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 23 July 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUfkfJfsKrc
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 9 August 2018 11:52 (five years ago) link