Mitski - The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We (CD)

Mitski wrote these songs in little bursts over the past few years, and they feel informed by moments of noticing – noticing a sound that’s out of place, a building that groans in decay, an opinion that splits a room, a feeling that can’t be contained in a body. It was recorded at both the Bomb Shelter in East Nashville and the Sunset Sound Studios in Los Angeles.

The album incorporates an orchestra arranged and conducted by Drew Erickson, as well as a full choir of 17 people - 12 in LA and 5 in Nashville - arranged by Mitski. And for the first time, it felt important to Mitski to have a band recording live together in the studio, to create this new sublime sound.

Working with her longtime producer Patrick Hyland, the album has a wide-range of references, from Ennio Morricone’s bombastic Spaghetti Western scores to Carter Burwell’s tundra-filling Fargo soundtrack, from the breathy intimacy of Arthur Russell to the strident aliveness of Scott Walker or Igor Stravinsky, from the jubilation of Caetano Veloso to the twangy longing of Faron Young.

Available on three formats:

Limited robin egg blue coloured vinyl with pink die-cut slipcase.

Standard Black Vinyl.

CD.

Tracklist:
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