如果没有希望灵魂或爱生活会变的更容易【独立/另类民谣/室内流行】Mitski-The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We

合集 · Folk/Free Folk/Psychedelic Folk/Avant-Folk (54)

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2023年9月15日发行

感兴趣的可以购买实体:https://mitski.bandcamp.com/album/the-land-is-inhospitable-and-so-are-we

RECORDING CREDITS:
Engineer - Michael Harris
Assistant Engineer - Nate Haessly
Recorded/Engineered/Produced by - Patrick Hyland

ALL TRACKS:
Written by Mitski
Patrick Hyland — Guitar, Bass, Keys, Drums
Mitski — Keys, Voice, Choral Arrangements
Orchestral Arrangements and Choral Copyist — Drew Erickson
Choir Contractor — Fletcher Sheridan
Digital and Vinyl Mastering by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Service.
Typefaces: Ready by Lucas Descroix and Benjamin Dumond for Plainform and Tofino by Alanna Munro. Album design by Mary Banas.

the title of Mitski’s seventh album prompts two notions: one, that the Japanese-American singer-songwriter has taken a leaf from the Lana Del Rey school of wordiness; and two, that she is returning to the state-of-the-nation territory of Be the Cowboy, her 2018 album querying Americanness and belonging. Neither is really the case, although Mitski’s penchant for classic Americana is musically front and centre – the lush, cinematic strings that play across songs like Heaven, or the pedal-steel wistfulness of much of the rest of this album, largely laid down in Nashville.
There are notions of a paradise lost in Buffalo Replaced, as a freight train screams across prairies where vast herds used to roam. But it’s the latter half of the title that looms largest on this moving, subtle record that rewards repeat listens. On The Deal, Mitski excises her soul and gives it to a bird; on I Don’t Like My Mind, her own brain is the enemy lying in wait. Her love, meanwhile, is like starlight on My Love Mine All Mine and Star – a light that will, she hopes, outlast her, as it does with the distant dead stars that still twinkle. Throughout, Mitski’s voice has never sounded sweeter or more exquisitely measured, even as she sings of protagonists vomiting cake, alcoholism (Bug Like an Angel), men, dogs, God and the devil.