Mitski “The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We” LP

Mitski hopes her 2023 album,The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We, will continue to shine that love long after shes gone. Listening to it, thats 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.