Mitski’s seventh studio album, The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We, is out now via Dead Oceans. It follows last year’s critically claimed album Laurel Hell, which she described as a “soundtrack for transformation.” The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We is Mitski’s so-called “most American album” with hefty influences from spaghetti Western soundtracks, Arthur Russell, and Igor Stravinsky.
“The best thing I ever did in my life was to love people,” Mitski told Dork about her new record. “I wish I could leave behind all the love I have, after I die, so that I can shine all this goodness, all this good love that I’ve created onto other people.”
To translate each song’s beauty, the singer-songwriter used Instagram Reels to break down each song’s meaning. Led by the dreary choral acoustic “Bug Like an Angel,” followed by melancholic slow-burn “Star” and heartbreaking “My Love All Mine,” Mitski shapes a record of wild freedom, abandonment, and self-founded resolution encased in 11 prophetic tracks.
Surrounding the album’s release, Mitski will perform a series of “intimate, acoustic” album preview performances entitled Amateur Mistake, with dates across the U.S., Europe, and the UK. All shows are sold out.
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