Mitski

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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.

thats the one i am going to flopson! and the first time i have been there since its new name

i've been there many times since. better but it still sucks lol

you got a ticket, Will?

yup... bought mine a few weeks ago because i thought it was gonna sell out.

nice. i just got one

not going to assume this is a new observation but your best american girl is wheatus teenage dirtbag

dead oceans is pretty alright they are carrying the young god records mantle well

first half of puberty is rocking my socks. not feeling the second half.

anybody who is also just getting into mitski - have a listen to 'retired from sad...' LP from 2013. great piano work

Listening to the new Ryan Hemsworth single and wondering why it's more enjoyable than the previous two - it's got Mitski!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO4WW1-7iSY

i bought this record without really having a feel for whether i liked it or not--there can be no debating that she's doing something interesting, at least--and thought it might be sort of like a less-funny xiu xiu. between the mid-90s downstrokiness and neuroses fully on display what it actually comes across as is maybe the truest descendent of pinkerton.

This is cool. I really like Fireworks.

Yes. That is a doozy of a song.

so...Your Best American Girl is the best song anyone's gonna release this year, huh

p much, although keep tabs on Weyes Blood as well

i loved that last Weyes Blood album, thanks for reminding me to check in on her

found this: http://songexploder.net/mitski

interesting breakdown of YBAG

I'm not typically a person who places a great deal of value on lyrics, but the "Your mother wouldn't approve of how my mother raised me / but I do, I think I do" (and later "I finally do") really punches me in the heart for some reason. It's such a wide open doorway into inhabiting someone else's life for 3 minutes, especially when your own experience is totally different.

it was you and you alone that he had shown his bedroom dancer to

Ha, wrote about this album last night for our record club blog, and that's the lyric I plucked out. Because it's amazing.

Also wiki says it's her 26th birthday today. Happy birthday!

i finally saw mitski this weekend after listening to her all summer. it was a super sketchy show. tension was in the air from the start. mitski was complaining of sound woes from the offset, and after playing two songs as a band (her producer, a drummer and herself) she told her band to leave the stage and said that she'd rather play a solo show ("with a missing string") where "pitch and timing isn't an issue". she played about 5 songs on her own from here, was visibly irritated and tense, and then asked for requests. i yelled out 'fireworks' - she played a few chords of it, and then decided she couldn't remember it. she also couldn't tune her guitar. after pacing around for a while, she called for "my band" to return to the stage. they didn't seem to want to head back out, so she done a 180 and did play fireworks. they took to the stage after that to end the set with one loud song together. i left feeling weird about the whole thing and she seemed a little bit of a diva about the situation. i guess all shows can't be great for a performer. i believe fault lied both in the band and the sound engineers... but who knows.

well, we're seeing her on thursday and we're super stoked so whatever lol