Mitski

i mean, there is some humor in the frisson that comes from singing "i'm a coward" as the beat picks up steam. but idk.

yeah, the big and small verse is heartbreaking, kinda feels like at least a little tongue-in-cheek to juxtapose against that fun lil' guitar darting in

yeah, there is irony but it is very bitter

lonesome love is dope

I wrote this elsewhere but the real comparison point for me isn't "Lovefool" but "Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)"

oh yeah, that's a good point

coincidentally one of the best songs ever

idk maybe i'm just caught up but i legitimately cannot think of an artist whose music i've enjoyed more this decade, am i what the internet calls a "stan" now?

only if you start personally attacking people who think otherwise

but the only person who i hear talk shit about mitski is... mitski

oh no

cardigans talk is on point in that i think a lot of mitski's musical refs are out of the mid to late 90s.

I really enjoy the yellow bedroom in the Nobody video.

I'd really like DJ Koze to remix Nobody along the lines of his remix of Lapsley's Operator.

ya need some edits of that track def

Wow. My favorite album of hers so far by a long shot. Elliott Smith comparison is otm, not only the arrangements but the vocal melodies. But not something I would've heard if you hadn't mentioned it or something I ever heard on her first two records.

the more time i spend with this album the more blown away i am

only a shitty curmudgeon or an idiot would hate this music

sorry i don't know why i put it like that. but yeah it's sensational

i agree. or someone is afraid of examining what loneliness has done to them over the years, because this is something mitski gets right into

while also doing (CRASS ANALOGY ALERT) for indie what wire did for punk

i do know why i put it like that btw - loads of the RYM reviews have been low-to-tepid, and the only track they want to talk about is Nobody, because people are shit listeners

i think over time it will become some kind of classic. it hits a certain mood that i haven't quite heard in anything else, but that feels very of our moment.

the one that is killing me today is "lonesome love."

maybe universal not of our moment. but it hits something nothing else does and there will be listeners in the future that will go back to it over and over

the mood is pure undistilled ¬_¬

yeah but all the while under the surface you're a geyer, hear it call, hear it call, hear it call to me

yeah that is part of ¬_¬ though - the desire to burst out, to be something, to be romantic

bang it up inside ¬_¬

I am still blown away by the brilliance of “Me and My Husband”

her deployment of Britpop horns (and that jaunty organ!) on that song and elsewhere on the album is amazing

Any article I read about Mitski totally turns me off from her music. Especially the exclaim one. She’s probably good tho - just a reminder that interviews with artists can be bad

I don't... really get why?

I don't get it either.

yea me neither, the one about Hitchcock heroines?

There’s no way I can respond to this without pissing someone off. I’ll get round to the music eventually

I'm not pissed off just confused, I read the Exclaim interview and it seemed fine

Is it the comment about her supposedly not being allowed to noodle because she's not a straight white guy? That wasn't in the Exclaim interview, though.

Xpost no - not saying anyone here will be pissed off, it just doesn’t benefit to diss well liked artists on ilm, hopefully that’s fair

not really no. it's actually worse and more frustrating to say that an interview annoyed you without saying why. also it makes us wonder about your motivations

I just found it highly serious and high concept, the film stuff etc

Not the first one I’ve read either. Anyways I’m not going to argue this further but Christ.

Sure the music is perfectly fine

Not everyone respects artists philosophies the same way. I’m sure some of you don’t like artists I like

¬_¬

Talking about film: a new milestone in highbrow contempt.

fair enuff
she makes good tunes tho ross i think you'll like it

start with 'townie' i reckon

Townie is good thanks Nxd

I never really read her interviews but I’m enthusiastic about the music. Maybe this is a new phase in listening for me—I used to always want to know who I was listening to.

mitski is an extremely intelligent person who is great in interviews and on social media :)

also this record is one of my favourites of 2018!

for what it's worth this record is nothing like the film she mentioned, I'm sure it was an influence in some 25-dimensional chess way but it also has a very dark ending (at least the book does) that has no corresponding part in the record

where is this film interview? i'd been thinking about how vivid the imagery on this album is (coupled with the music videos too) and been wondering how much she thought about that kind of big picture focus for everything related to the record

nvm, found it. im unfamiliar with the film she's talking about but interested in listening to the album with a different perspective

mitskkkkkiiiiiii