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Mitski: The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We [Dead Oceans]
Around the release of last album Laurel Hell, Mitski looked set to retire from music. Just 18 months later, to a resounding sigh of relief, she announced a follow-up. There is a lot “about working in the music industry, and about being in the public eye, that feels like it goes against my nature,” she said in a newsletter. “Ultimately, I recognized that I really want to keep making music, and I’m willing to take the difficult stuff with the wonderful stuff.” Led by the gospel-tinged “Bug Like an Angel,” The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We heralds the singer-songwriter’s return with orchestral swirls and folk threads wrapped around her typically acerbic, self-scrutinizing lyrics.
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