Mitski – The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We (LP, Dead Oceans)

Vinyl LP pressing. 2023 release. Sometimes Mitski says it feels like life would be easier without hope or a soul or love. But when she closes her eyes and thinks about what s truly hers what can t be repossessed or demolished she sees love. She hopes her album The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We will continue to shine that love long after she s gone. Listening to it that s precisely how it feels: like a love that s haunting the land. This is my most American album Mitski says about her seventh record and the music feels like a profound act of witnessing this country in all of it s private sorrows and painful contradictions. In this album which is sonically Mitski s most expansive epic and wise the songs seem to be introducing wounds and then actively healing them. Here love is time-traveling to bless our tender days like the light from a distant star. The album is full of the ache of the grown-up seemingly mundane heartbreaks and joys that are often unsung but feel enormous. It s a tiny epic. From the bottom of a glass to a driveway slushy with memory and snow to a freight train barreling through the Midwest and all the way to the moon it feels like everything and everyone is crying out screaming in pain arching towards love. Love is that inhospitable land beckoning us and then rejecting us. To love this place – this earth this America this body – takes active work. It might be impossible. The best things are. Album Tracks 1. Bug Like An Angel 2. Buffalo Replaced 3. Heaven 4. I Don t Like My Mind 5. The Deal 6. When Memories Snow 7. My Love Mine All Mine 8. The Frost 9. Star 10. I m Your Man 11. I Love Me After You.