Mitski – Puberty 2 (White Vinyl)

White vinyl! If you ask Mitski Miyawaki about happiness, she simply warns: ‘Happiness fucks you.’ This lesson has been present in the New Yorker’s dark outsider die sound for years, but never has it been realized more powerfully than on her latest album, ‘Puberty 2.’ ‘Happiness is up there, sadness is down there, but one is almost more destructive than the other,’ she says. ‘When you find you can’t have one without the other, it’s possible to spend periods of happiness waiting for the counter-wave to pass.’ On ‘Puberty 2,’ that tension is palpable: a hinterland both beautiful and brutally romantic, where one of America’s new voices is forging a brave new path.