“The fifth album from the singular songwriter is her greatest to date. From the music to her emotions, Mitski has the power to make the complex seem dazzlingly clear.”
“Mitski embraces her inner outlaw on the brilliant Be The Cowboy”
“There are a lot of unhappy people in the songs on Mitski’s new album. Some of them are Mitski herself, but not all. Belying the usual assumption that any woman who writes first-person lyrics is singing about herself, the 27-year-old singer-songwriter has said that many of the songs on Be the Cowboy are experiments in writing fiction. Let’s call it a successful experiment. She imagined her fiction”
“Her third LP sees her continue to emerge as a visionary singer-songwriter”
“The album is all the more impressive because her words and music are meticulously calculated, expertly arranged and still filled with feeling. ”
“When Mitski Miyawaki shared ‘Nobody’ in June, the song was a surprising deviation from her distortion-heavy guitar ballads. A wonky disco tune about loneliness that pulsed in offbeat, ‘Nobody’ sounded deliberately different to the musician’s angsty breakthrough records. Sure, it was Mitski, but this time there was added drama. On her fifth record, ‘Be The Cowboy’, the American-Japanese songwriter”
