
Dead Oceans
Mitski - Laurel Hell (Opaque Red Vinyl)
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We
don’t
typically
look
to
pop
albums
to
answer
our
cultural
moment,
let
alone
to
meet
the
soul
hunger
left
in
the
wake
of
global
catastrophe.
But
occasionally,
an
artist
proves
the
form
more
malleable
and
capacious
than
we
knew.
With
‘Laurel
Hell’,
Mitski
cements
her
reputation
as
an
artist
in
possession
of
such
power
-
capable
of
using
her
talent
to
perform
the
alchemy
that
turns
our
most
savage
and
alienated
experiences
into
the
very
elixir
that
cures
them.
Her
critically
beloved
last
album,
‘Be
the
Cowboy’,
built
on
the
breakout
acclaim
of
2016’s
‘Puberty
2’
and
launched
her
from
cult
favourite
to
indie
star.
She
ascended
amid
a
fever
of
national
division,
and
the
grind
of
touring
and
pitfalls
of
increased
visibility
influenced
her
music
as
much
as
her
spirit.
Like
the
mountain
laurels
for
this
new
album
is
named,
public
perception,
like
the
intoxicating
prism
of
the
internet,
can
offer
an
alluring
façade
that
obscures
a
deadly
trap
-
one
that
tightens
the
more
you
struggle.
Exhausted
by
this
warped
mirror,
and
our
addiction
to
false
binaries,
she
began
writing
songs
that
stripped
away
the
masks
and
revealed
the
complex
and
often
contradictory
realities
behind
them.
She
wrote
many
of
these
songs
during
or
before
2018,
while
the
album
finished
mixing
in
May
2021.
It
is
the
longest
span
of
time
Mitski
has
ever
spent
on
a
record,
and
a
process
that
concluded
amid
a
radically
changed
world.
Mitski
recorded
Laurel
Hell
with
her
long-time
producer
Patrick
Hyland
throughout
the
isolation
of
a
global
pandemic,
during
which
some
of
the
songs
“slowly
took
on
new
forms
and
meanings,
like
seed
to
flower.”
Sometimes
it’s
hard
to
see
the
change
when
you’re
the
agent
of
it,
but
for
the
lucky
rest
of
us,
Mitski
has
written
a
soundtrack
for
transformation,
a
map
to
the
place
where
vulnerability
and
resilience,
sorrow
and
delight,
error
and
transcendence
can
all
sit
within
our
humanity,
can
all
be
seen
as
worthy
of
acknowledgment
and,
ultimately,
love.
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