![]() Many of its tracks were written in 2018, making them closer contemporaries to Cowboy than the current cultural moment. This contradiction, an album that almost never existed but had to, makes Laurel Hell an inherently curious entry in Mitski’s discography. She wasn’t going to, except she was under contract to deliver one more set of songs. Years after she chanted “Change, change, change is gonna come, but when, when, when?”, the now 31-year-old Mitski finally has some answers, though based on her sixth album Laurel Hell, out February 4 via Dead Oceans, they’re not quite what she wanted to hear. But now one of our generation’s most poignant and pointed observers has returned. It’s been four years since Mitski released the post-Western elegy Be the Cowboy, an album that explored desires and dreams as lonely and gorgeous as a forever sky, and three years since she seemingly rode off into the sunset. ![]() Goodbye, my cowboy sweetheart welcome home, someone else.
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