Mitski

Truth be told, i'm not really any kind of Mitski fan.  It's not that i think she's bad.  She's not.  I've just never really paid too much attention to her particular brand of indie pop.  Anyway, i do have to admit that i love her new track "My Love Mine All Mine," an almost jazzy and loungey melancholy ballad.  Check it out below and get the new "The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We" LP here from Dead Oceans.

Mitski

New York's Mitski has been making a name for herself as a premiere American songwriter over the last few years, even getting such luminaries as Iggy Pop as a cheerleader.  New album "Be the Cowboy" is out now on Dead Oceans (get it here), and check out the beautiful and moody closer "Two Slow Dancers" below.

Mitski

One of the things i enjoy in the lead up to SXSW every year is checking out the scores and scores of artists and bands playing that i've never heard of, searching for something brand new to listen to at some free day party somewhere.  I discover a ton of great stuff that way.  New York by way of Japan artist Mitski is one of those discoveries.  Her work is beautiful and brutal and feminist, a mix of lo-fi, DIY motivation with shades of 90's alt-rock aesthetic, and some dreampop wonder.  It's goddamn good.  Listen to "Your Best American Girl" below from the upcoming, and wonderfully titled "Puberty 2" LP, due in June from Dead Oceans.  And be sure to catch a set from her if you're in Austin next week.