Mitski

Mitski Mitski Mitski

http://www.thefader.com/2014/11/04/mitski-bury-me-at-makeout-creek

rough-hewn folk and discordant indie pop. It's streamlined by Mitski's radiant voice, which sounds about halfway between Jennifer Castle and Dee Dee Ramone.

Haven't listened to this Brooklyn resident yet, but does she really sound kinda like Dee Dee

Finally listening to this now, after reading hype for their DC gig last night with Eskimeaux and Elvis Depressedly. Bob Boilen at NPR loves her/them. She does not sound like Dee Dee Ramone.

Kind of a 90s indie emo feel to it

they just recorded an NPR Tiny Desk show

She/they were great when I saw hem open for Screaming Females a bit ago. Most recent album has some solid earworms.

Little bit of discussion of Mitski on the Speedy Ortiz thread:

Speedy Ortiz

FUCK

https://soundcloud.com/deadoceans/mitski-your-best-american-girl-3

http://pitchfork-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/content/mitski%20art.jpg

JUNE 17

whoa this is gr8

YES!! Is it premature to call it my favourite album of the year without hearing it? This song is everything.

Mitski/Oranssi Pazuzu '16

And as Brad will surely remind us, "I like it when you sleep...." isn't on Spotify for another week

this is such a beautiful noise tho, she's gone widescreen

new song is so plodding and tuneless. nothing she's done has been as good as "Townie," incredible song

... ?

this song is all tune

also i love puberty 2 as an album title, one thing that strikes me about mitski is she's incredibly funny

it's a brilliant title yeah, love the cover font too

new song is so plodding and tuneless.

o_O

This song is massive and beautiful and makes my heart swell.

would just like to reiterate how fucking amazing this song is

we were reflecting on that very fact the other night

It is my favourite song of the year so far. Definitely going to see her in April! Excited daily about this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_hDHm9MD0I

fuck i haven't related to something so deeply specific in a while, this is a great video

Yeah, I have feelings about this video. Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but if I am, I don't want to be right.

(Love/partnership/etc looks appealing from afar, then when you see it on full display you realize how absurd and ridiculous it is.)

I'm still working out how I feel about the production but, yeah, good tune. It clicks better for me without the video but I'm weird like that. It's funny: in my head, she is the singer for Voice Coils first and foremost. The solo work seems on paper like something that I would write off as retro-90s alt-rock meh but her voice and melodies can make it connect.

Putting it on for the fourth time.

Sixth.

It is super addictive, yeah.

<i>It's funny: in my head, she is the singer for Voice Coils first and foremost. </i>

this is so goofy to me; I didn't know anyone had ever seen Voice Coils

Haven't seen the video yet but the song does that thing where the first chorus is the best thing ever, then the second chorus comes in really quickly and it's twice as good as the first chorus. These are all the feels post-metal was going for, packed into three minutes and intensified

shes no longer in voice coils ftr

I haven't seen Voice Coils live if that's what you meant, Jimmy, but they made some of my favourite rock music from the last couple of years.

I mean, I recognize that more people are probably familiar with her indie singer-songwriter work than with the glorious prog of Voice Coils. That's why it's funny.

ya i think we approach this funny in the same way but from opposite ends lulz

Still pissed her UK date sold out in basically seconds

guess she's more popular overseas; still tix available for the show in my town.

def agree w/ brad's comment upthread that she's v funny.

Yeah, I have feelings about this video. Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but if I am, I don't want to be right.

(Love/partnership/etc looks appealing from afar, then when you see it on full display you realize how absurd and ridiculous it is.)

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, April 13, 2016 9:32 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

don't forget the racial aspect

The racial aspect seems like the key element in it (I saw a story online where she acknowledges this). Japanese woman spurned by clean-cut white American boy who first leads her on

Yeah, I picked up on that too after I read the story, but initially I thought she really captured and condensed the timeline of "this person I like likes me" -> "oh no, this person is with someone else now" -> "look at those assholes!"

lol I guess that's a difference between you and me in that that's literally the first thing i noticed 10 seconds in

don't forget the racial aspect

― 龜, Friday, April 15, 2016 4:12 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^

https://soundcloud.com/deadoceans/mitski-happy-1

I love the sound of that sax.

shove off radiohead, this is more like it

the ending is the most wonderfully antisocial thing i've heard all year <3

this album's going to be great

:'D

this is so good

"Should've Been Me," more like should've been acknowledged as a perfect song

first Mitski album where I love every song

Laurel Hell that is

The title fucks me up because I always read it as Laurel Halo, and then I'm like no, wait a minute, it's Mitski.

new track imminent with album to follow, I'm wondering if too many people lost interest after Laurel Hell

https://pitchfork.com/news/mitski-announces-new-album-the-land-is-inhospitable-and-so-are-we-new-song-out-next-week/

Why would anyone have lost interest? Laurel Hell is fabulous.

It never grabbed me completely, I should revisit it.

Felt lackluster after Be The Cowboy, not bad just missing something.

I didn't love Laurel Hell or even Be The Cowboy like I did Bury Me and Puberty 2, but I'm still plenty interested. The unexpected choir in "Bug Like An Angel" is great!

xp Its critical reception was certainly less rapturous, though I'm sure the TikTok teens will still show up for her

be the cowboy fucking ruled.

mitski 4ever but she will never reach the same heights of popularity that she did in her early albums. this is because our collective misery has caught up with her personal misery, which she mines so expertly, with brutal irony.

like, you can't listen to this stuff if you are in the throes of an actual depressive episode. you can only enjoy it when you are the other side and then you can shudder and be like "ooh, i remember that," it's like dancing with the devil. the pleasure in this music isn't catharsis it's something else.

I always want you when I'm finally fine
How you'd be over me looking in my eyes when I come
Someone to watch me die, someone to watch me die

the new single is actually awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8r1M9R9Gf0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zSHu-fY-yM

new singles are quite nice

Even more than usual, these remind me of a certain other current songwriter I'm a fan of. Star builds with customary economy to a lovely intensity though, and I'm looking forward to the album

Heaven a bit drab mind

"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.

ok wow this show was exceptional. blew me away. amazing star quality. (the ticket prices were only insane for a short while, I think that was surge pricing or something; she added a second night which didn't sell out).

Hot take, but true: I quite like this new record, but not so much anything before it.

(And by new I mean the one from autumn '23... not that new, at this point)

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Ha!!

Could well be, could well be...