Mitski "Be The Cowboy" 2023-06-16 and the melodies are better

and the melodies are better and more surprising than ever

This is the band's first studio album to feature guitarist Josh Klinghoffer

The album was originally going to be titled Some Like It Hot or Some Like It Cut

It's the most musically adventurous set they've released to date

and one for which Olsen recalibrated her writing / recording approach and methods to enter a new music-making phase

Mitski "Be The Cowboy" 2023-06-16 and the melodies are betterThe breakout success of 2016s Puberty 2 saw Mitski hailed as the new vanguard of indie rock, the one to save the genre from the white dudes whove historically dominated it. But the often overlooked aspect of being a rising star is the sheer amount of work that goes into it. I had been on the road for a long time, which is so isolating, and had to run my own business at the same time, Mitski explains, a lot of this record was me not having any