Mitski

Vinyl Records and Rare LPs:

	Bury Me At Make Out Creek Colored Vinyl - DG-99 Sealed 2016 Dark Blue Vinyl Reissue. Custom Hype Sticker On Shrink. more
	Laurel Hell New - LP - DOC250LP Sealed 2022 Original. Single LP Housed In A Gatefold Jacket. "Stepping Back Into Her Own Shoes After The Character-driven Be The Cowboy, Mitski's Fourth Album, Laurel Hell, Finds The Songwriter In A Less Volatile, More (But Not Completely) Resigned State Of Mind As She Reflects On Persistent Incompatibility With Partners, Perceived Disinterest In What She Has To Offer, And An Overriding Ennui. While Much Of The Album Was Written Prior To The Covid-19 Pandemic, She Found New Meaning In Songs That Were Recorded With Longtime Producer Patrick Hyland In The Midst Of Prolonged Periods Of Isolation -- A Theme Closely Associated With Mitski's Work Since Long Before The Viral Threat. A Bit Of A Slow Builder With An Almost Cinematic Trajectory, Laurel Hell Begins With A Droning, Monotone Pop And The Lyrics "Let's Step Carefully Into The Dark/once We're In, I'll Remember My Way Around." That Song, "Valentine, Texas," Eventually Introduces The Slick '80s Pop Surfaces Employed Throughout Laurel Hell, With Its Shimmering Synths, Electric Piano, And Business-Like Drums Often Seeming Like A False Front Given The Deeply Brooding Nature Of The Album's Lyrics. Even So, With 11 Tracks Clocking In At A Total Of Around 30 Minutes, Mitski Gets To The Point When She Laments Oppressive Systems On "Working For The Knife," When She Examines Being Drawn To Darkness Against A Backdrop Of Industrial Synths And Late, Swelling Strings On "Everyone," And When Demanding More Of Her Lover On The Driving Synth Pop Track "Love Me More," Which Also Includes The Devastating Stanza, "How Do Other People Live?/i Wonder How They Keep It Up/when Today Is Finally Done/there's Another Day To Come/then Another Day To Come/then Another Day To Come." Following The Exhausted, Piano-based Breakup Dirge "I Guess" ("I Guess This Is The End/i'll Have To Learn To Be Somebody Else"), Mitski Closes The Album On The Sparkling, Highly Melodic "That's Our Lamp," Which Disco Dances Into The Sunset While Remembering Being Loved -- In The Past Tense." AMG Review By Marcy Donelson. more
	Laurel Hell Colored Vinyl - New - DOC250LP-C1 Sealed 2022 Limited Edition Opaque Red Coloured Vinyl, Housed In A Gatefold. "Stepping Back Into Her Own Shoes After The Character-driven Be The Cowboy, Mitski's Fourth Album, Laurel Hell, Finds The Songwriter In A Less Volatile, More (But Not Completely) Resigned State Of Mind As She Reflects On Persistent Incompatibility With Partners, Perceived Disinterest In What She Has To Offer, And An Overriding Ennui. While Much Of The Album Was Written Prior To The Covid-19 Pandemic, She Found New Meaning In Songs That Were Recorded With Longtime Producer Patrick Hyland In The Midst Of Prolonged Periods Of Isolation -- A Theme Closely Associated With Mitski's Work Since Long Before The Viral Threat. A Bit Of A Slow Builder With An Almost Cinematic Trajectory, Laurel Hell Begins With A Droning, Monotone Pop And The Lyrics "Let's Step Carefully Into The Dark/once We're In, I'll Remember My Way Around." That Song, "Valentine, Texas," Eventually Introduces The Slick '80s Pop Surfaces Employed Throughout Laurel Hell, With Its Shimmering Synths, Electric Piano, And Business-like Drums Often Seeming Like A False Front Given The Deeply Brooding Nature Of The Album's Lyrics. Even So, With 11 Tracks Clocking In At A Total Of Around 30 Minutes, Mitski Gets To The Point When She Laments Oppressive Systems On "Working For The Knife," When She Examines Being Drawn To Darkness Against A Backdrop Of Industrial Synths And Late, Swelling Strings On "Everyone," And When Demanding More Of Her Lover On The Driving Synth Pop Track "Love Me More," Which Also Includes The Devastating Stanza, "How Do Other People Live?/i Wonder How They Keep It Up/when Today Is Finally Done/there's Another Day To Come/then Another Day To Come/then Another Day To Come." Following The Exhausted, Piano-based Breakup Dirge "I Guess" ("I Guess This Is The End/i'll Have To Learn To Be Somebody Else"), Mitski Closes The Album On The Sparkling, Highly Melodic "That's Our Lamp," Which Disco Dances Into The Sunset While Remembering Being Loved -- In The Past Tense." AMG Review By Marcy Donelson. more
	Laurel Hell New - LP - DOC250LP Sealed 2022 Original. Single LP Housed In A Gatefold Jacket. "Stepping Back Into Her Own Shoes After The Character-driven Be The Cowboy, Mitski's Fourth Album, Laurel Hell, Finds The Songwriter In A Less Volatile, More (But Not Completely) Resigned State Of Mind As She Reflects On Persistent Incompatibility With Partners, Perceived Disinterest In What She Has To Offer, And An Overriding Ennui. While Much Of The Album Was Written Prior To The Covid-19 Pandemic, She Found New Meaning In Songs That Were Recorded With Longtime Producer Patrick Hyland In The Midst Of Prolonged Periods Of Isolation -- A Theme Closely Associated With Mitski's Work Since Long Before The Viral Threat. A Bit Of A Slow Builder With An Almost Cinematic Trajectory, Laurel Hell Begins With A Droning, Monotone Pop And The Lyrics "Let's Step Carefully Into The Dark/once We're In, I'll Remember My Way Around." That Song, "Valentine, Texas," Eventually Introduces The Slick '80s Pop Surfaces Employed Throughout Laurel Hell, With Its Shimmering Synths, Electric Piano, And Business-like Drums Often Seeming Like A False Front Given The Deeply Brooding Nature Of The Album's Lyrics. Even So, With 11 Tracks Clocking In At A Total Of Around 30 Minutes, Mitski Gets To The Point When She Laments Oppressive Systems On "Working For The Knife," When She Examines Being Drawn To Darkness Against A Backdrop Of Industrial Synths And Late, Swelling Strings On "Everyone," And When Demanding More Of Her Lover On The Driving Synth Pop Track "Love Me More," Which Also Includes The Devastating Stanza, "How Do Other People Live?/i Wonder How They Keep It Up/when Today Is Finally Done/there's Another Day To Come/then Another Day To Come/then Another Day To Come." Following The Exhausted, Piano-based Breakup Dirge "I Guess" ("I Guess This Is The End/i'll Have To Learn To Be Somebody Else"), Mitski Closes The Album On The Sparkling, Highly Melodic "That's Our Lamp," Which Disco Dances Into The Sunset While Remembering Being Loved -- In The Past Tense." AMG Review By Marcy Donelson. more
	Laurel Hell New - LP - DOC250LP Sealed 2022 Original. Single LP Housed In A Gatefold Jacket. "Stepping Back Into Her Own Shoes After The Character-driven Be The Cowboy, Mitski's Fourth Album, Laurel Hell, Finds The Songwriter In A Less Volatile, More (But Not Completely) Resigned State Of Mind As She Reflects On Persistent Incompatibility With Partners, Perceived Disinterest In What She Has To Offer, And An Overriding Ennui. While Much Of The Album Was Written Prior To The Covid-19 Pandemic, She Found New Meaning In Songs That Were Recorded With Longtime Producer Patrick Hyland In The Midst Of Prolonged Periods Of Isolation -- A Theme Closely Associated With Mitski's Work Since Long Before The Viral Threat. A Bit Of A Slow Builder With An Almost Cinematic Trajectory, Laurel Hell Begins With A Droning, Monotone Pop And The Lyrics "Let's Step Carefully Into The Dark/once We're In, I'll Remember My Way Around." That Song, "Valentine, Texas," Eventually Introduces The Slick '80s Pop Surfaces Employed Throughout Laurel Hell, With Its Shimmering Synths, Electric Piano, And Business-like Drums Often Seeming Like A False Front Given The Deeply Brooding Nature Of The Album's Lyrics. Even So, With 11 Tracks Clocking In At A Total Of Around 30 Minutes, Mitski Gets To The Point When She Laments Oppressive Systems On "Working For The Knife," When She Examines Being Drawn To Darkness Against A Backdrop Of Industrial Synths And Late, Swelling Strings On "Everyone," And When Demanding More Of Her Lover On The Driving Synth Pop Track "Love Me More," Which Also Includes The Devastating Stanza, "How Do Other People Live?/i Wonder How They Keep It Up/when Today Is Finally Done/there's Another Day To Come/then Another Day To Come/then Another Day To Come." Following The Exhausted, Piano-based Breakup Dirge "I Guess" ("I Guess This Is The End/i'll Have To Learn To Be Somebody Else"), Mitski Closes The Album On The Sparkling, Highly Melodic "That's Our Lamp," Which Disco Dances Into The Sunset While Remembering Being Loved -- In The Past Tense." AMG Review By Marcy Donelson. more
	Puberty 2 Colored Vinyl - DOC 123 Sealed, Out Of Print 2016 Limited Edition White Vinyl. more
	The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We Colored Vinyl - Used - DOC 350 2023 standard gatefold pressing with no download card or post card pack. Split to inner die-cut sleeve. Pressed on opaque "Robin Egg" Blue. Gatefold cover is housed in a secondary die-cut slip cover outer sleeve. Few stain spots on seams. "Mitski spent the early part of her recording career establishing herself as an authentic voice of the alienated, marginalized, and romantically hapless with a string of candid indie rockers like "Your Best American Girl" and the eventually gold-certified "I Bet on Losing Dogs" before surprising fans and winning new ones with a quasi-synth pop album in the form of 2022's Laurel Hell. While that record's outlook remained similar to its predecessors, its glossier textures and ironic hooks launched her into the Top Five of the Billboard 200, her first time even cracking the Top 50. It may or may not come as a surprise, then, that she makes a stylistic sharp left turn with the more reserved, acoustic-leaning The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We, a quasi-country album. With cited influences spanning Ennio Morricone, Faron Young, Caetano Veloso, and Arthur Russell, among others, it was recorded with her longtime producer, Patrick Hyland, with her band on hand live in the studio, and with a (judiciously employed) orchestra and 17-piece choir. The album begins evocatively, with the image of a bug stuck to the bottom of glass of booze on "Bug Like an Angel," and we know that chart success hasn't spoiled our anti-heroine. By the end of the first verse, the song's gentle vocals and strummed acoustic guitar are bombarded by a unison choir echoing the word "family" ("Sometimes a drink feels like family"). The choir later emphasizes the phrase "They break you right back." Western themes are soon introduced on the spare, grungy second track, "Buffalo Replaced," whose imagery includes mosquitoes and a freight train before steel guitar and Western swing make their first appearances on the tender, fully arranged "Heaven." Mitski returns to that song's orchestrated country stylings several more times here, including on tracks such as the pleading, potential outcast anthem "I Don't Like My Mind," the seductively languid earworm "My Love Mine All Mine" ("Nothing in the world belongs to me but my love"), and the more uptempo "The Frost," whose buoyant melody proves wry as the singer considers, "You're my best friend/Now I've no one to tell/How I lost my best friend." Toward the end of the 11-track set, the distinctly dark and immediate "I'm Your Man" ("You believe me like a god/I betray you like a man") juxtaposes its glee club-like harmony choir with thudding percussion and recordings of barking dogs, crickets, and a shriek. Mitski has left the twang in the mud-specked rearview mirror by the time the album closes on the simmering rocker "I Love Me After You," in which she refers to her lover as "king of all the land," making the point that, for her, love pervades everything, including the terrain." All Music Guide - Macey Donelson. more