Mitski - Nothing's About To Happen To Me. LP [Tansy Yellow Vinyl]

Mitski - Nothing's About To Happen To Me. LP [Tansy Yellow Vinyl]

On Nothing’s About to Happen to Me, the 8th album from the Japanese/American singer-songwriter Mitski, it feels like she’s constantly grappling with two halves of herself. Wanting to disappear completely but knowing you rarely can must be a tough pill to swallow. Often lamenting about the reality and joys of moving from a small town to the city, starting anew and becoming a drop in the ocean. It feels very fitting then that she’s opted to bring her sound back to a delicate mix between the elegantly soft spoken, country-adjacent tendency cross chaotic distorted rock roots found on Puberty 2.

In many ways Nothing’s About To Happen to Me almost feels like a sister album to her breakout, Puberty 2. Back in 2016 Mitski held her life up like a mirror, often battling between what she knew in her heart and what the world was telling her she should be. Now more comfortable with her reflection, she still struggles with slightly different trauma and insecurities – you can’t help but feel like she’s persistently being pulled in two directions. That gut-wrenching feeling of misplacement is perhaps felt the hardest on mid album highlight “I’ll Change For You”. Here atop soft jazz inspired grooves and cinematic orchestral flourishes she gives the line “Bars, such magic places. You can be with other people, without having anyone at all”.

Mitski wastes no time showing off her masterful melodic disposition and ironic sense of humor, often sampling specific examples of the literal scenes she’s detailing just to hammer the point home with a sly wink. ‘Nothing’s About to Happen to Me’ excels in its variety, it’s a wonderful showcase of every tool learnt over the past 10 years. Sonically drenching her toes in every barrage of horns, wash of lap steel or fuzzed out guitar solo. It’s this conglomerate of musical ideas that acts as a perfect landing pad for Mitski to detail the plight of modern living. The loneliness, fame and love, lost or gained. Like all of us, she’s still figuring it out, but doing so in her own uniquely lonesome way.

For fans of Wilco, MJ Lenderman & Waxahatchee

Tracklist

In a Lake
Where's My Phone
Cats
If I Leave
Dead Women
Instead Of Here
I'll Change For You
Rules
That White Cat
Charon's Obol
Lightning