Mitski - Nothing’s About To Happen To Me
★★★★
DEAD OCEANS
The release of Mitski’s concert film The Land and its accompanying live album last autumn consolidated her status as a kind of art-school Taylor Swift: glancingly elusive but still capable of grand emotional spectacle. Recorded with her live band, Nothing’s About To Happen To Me showcases Mitski’s gift for cutting vintage musical theatre stylings and half-lit Americana with acerbic art-pop, the jaunty list-song Rules or the chaotic evil Where’s My Phone? almost sharing a theatrical moment with current-day David Byrne.
That White Cat simmers with jarring anger at parasitic forces who seek to commodify and consume while Dead Women’s disturbing Lana Del Cohen transmission features the lyric “Would you have liked me better if I’d died/so you could tell my story the way it ought to be?” No problem with erasure here, though: every song on Nothing’s About To Happen To Me bears Mitski’s distinctive mark.
Nothing’s About To Happen To Me is out February 27 on Dead Oceans.
ORDER: Amazon | Rough Trade |HMV
Tracklisting:
1. In A Lake
2. Where’s My Phone?
3. Cats
4. If I Leave
5. Dead Women
6. Instead Of Here
7. I’ll Change For You
8. Rules
9. That White Cat
10. Charon’s Obol
11. Lightning
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