Ethan Shanfeld Just over a year after her latest studio album “Laurel Hell,” Mitski has returned with new music. On Wednesday, the beloved and hermetic indie rocker released the acoustic ballad “Bug Like an Angel,” which serves as the lead single to her upcoming album “The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We,” out Sept.
15 via Dead Oceans. Mitski first teased the new album, recorded at both Bomb Shelter Studios in East Nashville and Sunset Sound Studios in Los Angeles, in her newsletter on Sunday.
In the music video for “Bug Like an Angel,” directed by Noel Paul, a woman staggers and collapses outside of a bar until she is welcomed by a choir featuring a guitar-wielding Mitski.
Eventually, the woman rejects their embrace, setting off once again on her own. It’s a metaphor explored on “The Land,” which, according to a press release, is about the disruptive, difficult and revolutionary power of love. “This land, which already feels inhospitable to so many of its inhabitants, is about to feel hopelessly torn and tossed again — at times, devoid of love.
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