“Made up in equal parts of emotional pop bangers and riveting electronic anomie, Mitski’s hotly anticipated fifth album does not disappoint. This Japanese American indie artist’s strides towards the mainstream are laced with resonant themes; disembodied hands, cleanliness and “the dark” recur as images. The hooks are sharp. A series of tunes skew hard towards sleek, oversaturated 80s pop. In addit”
“After nearly quitting music, the indie hero is back with a proudly unresolved album”
“meta musings set to her grandest music yet”
“Mitski is always beckoning, no matter how she may recoil. Her work stacks contradictory compulsions: She wants, and wants to be wanted; at any moment, she’ll offer herself up, or be taken, or take. She has all the power, and none. She can’t have enough or be enough for even herself. A laurel hell, the namesake of her latest album, is a maze where thickets of beautiful flowers grow knotty and impa”
“Mitski reaches new levels of emotion and self-deprecation on Laurel Hell”
“Mitski’s sixth album is an austere, nuanced, and disaffected indie-pop record that, in part, addresses her turbulent relationship with her own career.”
