Review: Mitski’s ‘Laurel Hell’ Is Beautiful And Bleak

Goodbye, my cowboy sweetheart; welcome home, someone else. It’s been four years since Mitski released the post-Western elegy Be the Cowboy, an album that explored desires and dreams as lonely and gorgeous as a forever sky, and three years since she seemingly rode off into the sunset. But now one of our generation’s most poignant and pointed observers has returned. Years after she chanted “Change, change, change is gonna come, but when, when, when?”, the now 31-year-old Mitski finally has some answers, though based on her sixth album Laurel Hell, out February 4 via Dead Oceans, they’re not quite what… Read Full Article