Mitski - The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We. Cassette
Sometimes, Mitski feels 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. “The best thing I ever did in my life was to love people,” she says. “I wish I could leave behind all the love I have after I die, so I can shine all this goodness, all this good love that I’ve created onto other people.” She hopes her newest album, The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We, will shine love long after she’s gone. 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 its 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.
Release Date: September 15, 2023
Track Listing:
Side A
01 Bug Like an Angel | 3:32
02 Buffalo Replaced | 2:40
03 Heaven | 3:44
04 I Don't Like My Mind | 2:25
05 The Deal |3:52
Side B
06 When Memories Snow | 1:44
07 My Love Mine All Mine | 2:18
08 The Frost | 2:48
09 Star | 2:59
10 I'm Your Man | 3:30
11 I Love Me After You | 2:49
