Mitski

"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

i guess i'm not that bothered she wrote some good songs and that's all that really fucking matters.

that sounds like a real unusual situation. she was incredible live opening for speedy last year

if she takes requests she's already more audience-receptive than 95% of artists. and she's neurotic as anything - it's a crucial factor in her art - no surprise at all that she feels tension or irritation at all times, as is her right

fireworks would be my request too fyi

oh god i KNEW they'd roll out Trust Fund as support, much as they did when Speedy Ortiz visited last year. much as i want to like them they really haven't written any songs yet

I saw her say on Twitter once how she felt upset that some audiences gave her stick for not always having a full band live. It might be that she's not so accustomed to that set up. And yeah, like imago mentioned, her own internal struggles probably contribute enormously to the stress of being on tour. She's hardly full of self-love and it must be so hard to negotiate everything under a pretty sudden and full-on spotlight. I think it'll be great to see her regardless of emotional tension, and I hope she adjusts well to her massively deserved success in the long run and releases another ten albums as good as the last two.

Aaw Trust Fund are cute.

trust fund are darlings. i hang out with them in my town. the two records they put out last year are both amazing pop songs start to finish.

tangent, yes. i agree with your sentiments. i guess i just wanted to report the show. it was strange.

omg Trust Fund are WAY better than last time, that was great

Being a singing-drummer three-piece suits them and it turns out they have a few lovely songs :'D

anyway, Mitski impendeth

omg she did ...crushed Little stars as her encore it was the best encore ever

am I alone in getting strong Annie Clarke/St. Vincent vibes from this?

the comparison has been made on RYM quite a lot, but I'm not entirely convinced

also imo comparing female solo artists to each other is a fine habit to get out of

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

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).

can't stop listening to your best american girl

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.

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.

it is a bit hard on the ears

much contemporary music is...