Felt lackluster after Be The Cowboy, not bad just missing something.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 27 July 2023 01:16 (ten months ago) link
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!
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 27 July 2023 01:35 (ten months ago) link
xp Its critical reception was certainly less rapturous, though I'm sure the TikTok teens will still show up for her
― jaymc, Thursday, 27 July 2023 01:35 (ten months ago) link
be the cowboy fucking ruled.
― treeship., Thursday, 27 July 2023 01:36 (ten months ago) link
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.
― treeship., Thursday, 27 July 2023 01:39 (ten months ago) link
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.
― treeship., Thursday, 27 July 2023 01:40 (ten months ago) link
I always want you when I'm finally fineHow you'd be over me looking in my eyes when I comeSomeone to watch me die, someone to watch me die
― treeship., Thursday, 27 July 2023 01:44 (ten months ago) link
the new single is actually awesome
― treeship., Thursday, 27 July 2023 02:19 (ten months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8r1M9R9Gf0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zSHu-fY-yM
new singles are quite nice
― ufo, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 20:48 (nine months ago) link
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
― imago, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 21:05 (nine months ago) link
Heaven a bit drab mind
"star" is definitely the better of the two, the build is very nice
which songwriter are you thinking of
― ufo, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 21:07 (nine months ago) link
the right honourable Natalie Mering ofc
― imago, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 21:08 (nine months ago) link
oh yeah i hear that but i definitely like these more than the last weyes blood album
― ufo, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 21:14 (nine months ago) link
Star definitely better than most of it yeah
― imago, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 21:26 (nine months ago) link
Have always maintained they share (exquisite) melodic sensibilities at times
new album is quite nice, lovely arrangements
― ufo, Friday, 15 September 2023 00:07 (eight months ago) link
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
― imago, Friday, 15 September 2023 07:54 (eight months ago) link
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
― imago, Friday, 15 September 2023 10:39 (eight months ago) link
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.
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 15 September 2023 11:49 (eight months ago) link
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.
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 16 September 2023 15:19 (eight months ago) link
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
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 16 September 2023 15:58 (eight months ago) link
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.
― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 17 September 2023 05:57 (eight months ago) link
it's definitely a deliberately jarring choice, it just annoys me is all
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 17 September 2023 16:07 (eight months ago) link
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
― imago, Sunday, 17 September 2023 16:38 (eight months ago) link
by that do you mean be the cowboy or laurel hell
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 17 September 2023 17:33 (eight months ago) link
lol c'mon
― imago, Sunday, 17 September 2023 18:57 (eight months ago) link
I mean I assume you were talking about Be The Cowboy but this is ILX where people will say all kinds of things
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 17 September 2023 23:21 (eight months ago) link
well yes
― imago, Monday, 18 September 2023 02:49 (eight months ago) link
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.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 22 September 2023 14:46 (eight months ago) link
https://x.com/chartdata/status/1708936082828693874?s=20
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Monday, 2 October 2023 20:34 (eight months ago) link
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
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Monday, 2 October 2023 20:35 (eight months ago) link
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
― technopolis, Monday, 2 October 2023 20:41 (eight months ago) link
And now she's no.15 in the UK which is quite nice and entirely down to tiktok apparently etc
― technopolis, Friday, 6 October 2023 21:25 (eight months ago) link
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
― boxedjoy, Monday, 9 October 2023 18:34 (eight months ago) link
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
― Ryan seaQuest (Will M.), Saturday, 14 October 2023 08:32 (seven months ago) link
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.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 26 January 2024 18:25 (four months ago) link
Maybe not so crazy, then.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 27 January 2024 18:51 (four months ago) link