![]() Within her American musical identity is a preoccupation with the devil, God, and souls - like in the ominous sounds of dogs barking on “I'm Your Man.” They appear in the big orchestral sweeps of “Heaven”, in the haunted woodwinds and horns of “When Memories Snow,” in the drum fills that lead into the lines “You know I’d always been alone / Till you taught me / To live for somebody” on “Star.” (All three no doubt at least partially to the credit of orchestra conductor Drew Erickson, known for his work with Lana Del Rey ).Ī few of the songs on “The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We” began years ago and were given time to mature into their final forms - another benefit of taking time off. On “I Don't Like My Mind,” she sings, “I don’t like my mind / I don’t like being left alone in a room / With all its opinions about / The things that I’ve done,” offering profundity to mundane, worried behavior - the kind often described colloquially as “cringeworthy" - because expressing acute anxiety in the modern era is most commonly done with cute branding, instead of the head-on collision of a Mitski track. Where allegories fail, Mitski gets explicit. Throughout, there are mentions of freight trains, fireflies, mosquitos, murmuring brooks, willow trees and midnight walks the gorgeous, melancholic glissando of pedal steel is used liberally. ![]() It is an ideal introduction to what the singer has labeled her “most American album," and certainly her most world-weary. Few artists know how to masterfully unearth humanity's most disappointing and frustrating characteristics, and fewer do so lovingly. If the messaging wasn't paradoxical, it wouldn't be up for interpretation, and it certainly wouldn't be a Mitski record. ![]() “Bug Like an Angel” is constructed around four flat major chords played on acoustic guitar - in music theory, a progression that should elicit a dreamy, optimistic feeling - interrupted by a choir. That's a lot of weight to put on an insect.
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