Laurel Hell - Mitski: Review
Mitski is a Japanese-American indie musician who successfully made the transition from indie darling across her first 3 albums to full blown sad girl sensation in the wake of her 2018 album Be The Cowboy . Mitski's notoriously low profile on social media has generally kept her out of the news since then but she emerged last year with a series of singles leading to this highly anticipated follow-up. Review By Lav: There's a LOT of love for Mitski out there, trust me. When I published my review of Be The Cowboy I thought I was fairly assessing what Mitski did right as a lyricist with a strong grip on stringing conceptual emotional themes through her music, as well as what she did wrong as a songwriter penning tracks that lulled with no momentum and ended completely abruptly like the album equivalent of edging. That didn't go over well. As you know if you've ever tweeted anything about Phoebe Bridgers, talking about Mitski online will flood your DMs with Lady Bird profil...