Mitski, Jay Som

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Mitski

Mitski Miyawaki is one of the greatest contemporary singer-songwriters working today. Her 2018 LP, Be The Cowboy, carries the weight of a pantheon of influences (like Fiona Apple and Joni Mitchell) and moves forward in her own direction. Just listen to “Nobody,” where Mitski flaunts her vocal prowess at the song’s breakdown, writes lyrics “Venus, planet of love, was destroyed by global warming” and still somehow makes a danceable synth ballad of a song about existential aloneness. Mitski’s music doesn’t simply engage with the world, it builds new ones altogether. With Jay Som.

$25 ($22.50 adv.). Doors 7 pm.

press release: Mitski returns to the road this spring, following an incredible year surrounding the release of her fifth album, Be The Cowboy, released this summer via Dead Oceans. The tour will consist entirely of cities not yet visited in support of Be the Cowboy. Tickets go on sale this Friday, December 14 at http://mitski.com/. In addition to a completely sold out North American tour that concluded with four consecutive nights at Brooklyn Steel, Be The Cowboy has been named Vulture, Consequence of Sound, and The Line of Best Fit’s Album of the Year.

“It seems impossible for Mitski songs to be both mannered and explosive, but the perfect two-minute wonders that populate her stunning fifth album Be the Cowboy manage to mine the full depth of human despair and disappointment in little more than a few chilly, economic turns of phrase.”  

– Vulture,  #1 Best Album of 2018

“Such heartrending catharsis presented with peerlessly compelling compositions and keen lyricism sublimates the album beyond ‘indie’ and into fine art.”

– Consequence of Sound,  #1 Best Album of 2018

“[Be the Cowboy] is an album defined by impeccable construction and open defiance of the confessional mode." – NPR  Music, #2 in Best Albums of 2018

"Isolation, insecurity, imperfection: on her fifth album, indie rocker Mitski is always striving to fix something, and she expresses those desires keenly in bright rock songs . . . No one else sounds like Mitski, but everyone can relate." – TIME, #3 in Best Albums of 2018