Mitski

"star" is definitely the better of the two, the build is very nice

which songwriter are you thinking of

the right honourable Natalie Mering ofc

oh yeah i hear that but i definitely like these more than the last weyes blood album

Star definitely better than most of it yeah

Have always maintained they share (exquisite) melodic sensibilities at times

new album is quite nice, lovely arrangements

you can hear her formerly brilliant melodic sensibility erode over the course of the opening track. arrangements have triumphed over songwriting. the rest of this had best be an improvement

hmm. nah. 'i don't like my mind' is really good. the rest is largely dull. 'star' grew off me a bit but probably the best of the rest. poor Mitski, they did a number on her eh

I’m more a Mitski tourist, but listening to it with my superfan daughter I really liked “My Love Mine All Mine” and “I’m Your Man”. Agree the arrangements are complex and interesting.

Apart from one here and there, Mitski seems to write impressions of songs rather than actual songs. Sometimes I'm in the mood for that and sometimes I'm not, but this is a very nice *sounding* album, whereas Laurel Hell had some earwormy hooks but the soundscape was about 7 years too late.

only listened to this once but I agree with that; the last album kind of washed past me and I rarely want to revisit it, but this seems like a return to the things I liked about everything before that. I do think the background vox in the first song are mixed way too high though

The crazy loud BG vox have to be a deliberately jarring choice, no? I kind of wish the rest of the album had similarly brave/weird choices. Def like this more than the last one already, but … I don’t think her recent songs have been distinctive enough to stand up next to Puberty 2 and Makeout Creek.

As a songwriter she reminds me of Neko Case — the words obviously come first and then get shoehorned into aimless melodies (with some standout exceptions in both cases). Each has a style that’s unmistakably her own, but within that style there’s a lot of interchangeable, middling material.

it's definitely a deliberately jarring choice, it just annoys me is all

everywhere I'm seeing 'best since Puberty/Makeout' it's like seriously are we just gonna straight up erase one of the best albums of recent years

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.