Mitski - Laurel Hell (Black) Iggy & The Stooges

Mitski - Laurel Hell (Black) Iggy & The StoogesWe don't typically look to pop albums to answer our cultural moment, let alone to meet the soul hunger left in the wake of global catastrophe. But occasionally, an artist proves the form more malleable and capacious than we knew. With Laurel Hell, Mitski cements her reputation as an artist in possession of such power capable of using her talent to perform the alchemy that turns our most savage and alienated experiences into the very elixir that cures

originally released in 2018

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and Guidance finds the band still searching out new sounds while continuing to play to the collective strengths of guitarist Mike Sullivan

tapped into the surging energy of their hometown rock-and-roll scene (mid-70s Detroit) to produce a style and a set of songs that

when The Mountain Goats got together in early March

Suppertime

i completes the cycle: a fall record

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Crystal Nuns Cathedral

And while they were at it