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

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...

IS the new album out now? I see it all greyesd out

Another week away.

I like “I’ll Change For You” a lot, very elegantly arranged.

the vinyl comes with a little diaorama

new album is nice, every time i was starting to think a track was boring it'd move in a more interesting direction

i would like a whole album of "i'll change for you" from her

every time i was starting to think a track was boring it'd move in a more interesting direction

imago catnip incoming

don't get your hopes up too much

nothing here really blows me away like her previous highlights but it's very solid

this is indeed really good, a huge improvement over the last two

Dead Women is kind of incredible

I did buy that vinyl where you can built a little house

this isn't grabbing me but that's been true of almost all of her albums on first listen

hadn't listened to any of the singles beside "where's my phone?" so i was kinda floored by "i'll change for you"

These days I wince when exposed to masochism like that but she almost convinces me.

I started volunteering at a cat rescue clinic so driving there on Friday and hearing one song called "Cats" and another called "That White Cat" was pretty perfect.

Given what we learn about him she should've called it "That Darn Cat!"

I like cats

me too but i do not really like this album. most of the tracks sound like standard mitski, which is fine but they feel recycled and often incomplete. the few that try something different seem to be going for a cocktail jazz vibe, which is not for me. even the one rocker (where's my phone) is annoying. i will always be happy to listen to her sing though.

I feel the same, NA.
I'll give it another go but it's not grabbing me very much

Yeah same here. And « where is my phone » reminds me of… morrissey !

ha, I can hear that, not a bad thing imo

I like this now

I listened to it while I was high yesterday and really enjoyed it but all music sounds great to me when I'm high.

yes that was my experience

it picks up where be the cowboy left off while incorporating the mellower sounds from the last album. it's solid! i feel like she's probably capable of something better but those really fantastic moments are fairly rare for her so maybe not. i'm happy to settle for regular 'pretty good' moments though

about how I'd sum it up too

"dead women" is just wonderful though, that last chorus

A lot of midtempo blah on this album.

"dead women" is just wonderful though, that last chorus

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one of the best songs of the year absolutely

when i saw her "i'll change for you" performance on colbert, i felt like i was listening to karen carpenter singing for a second (laudatory), her voice is so beautiful

this is indeed really good, a huge improvement over the last two

pithy rebuttal from the former stylus supremo there :P