Mitski: Last News

Mitski has announced the title of her next album, The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We. The news was revealed to subscribers of Mitski's newsletter in a voice note, which was subsequently shared via fans on social media.

Mitski has announced her seventh studio album, ‘The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We’.On Sunday night (July 23), the singer-songwriter sent out a newsletter to her fans that included a voice memo, through which she revealed the title of the upcoming album. She also shared that the album’s first single – which has yet to receive a title – will arrive on Wednesday (July 26).“Hi, this is Mitski, and I’m at Bomb Shelter Studios in Nashville, where we recorded my new album that’s coming out.

Mitski has shared a new remix of her recent single ‘Love Me More’ by producer Clark – listen to the new version below.The track appears on Mitski’s new album ‘Laurel Hell’, which was released earlier this year via Dead Oceans.“Clark’s music, specifically his album Death Peak, was what opened my eyes to contemporary electronic music,” Mitski said of the producer’s influence on her in a statement.“It showed me how emotive it could be. So when I was asked to do a remix, he was the first and only person that came to mind for the job.”Of the remix he created, Clark added: “Huge pleasure to be asked to do this, thank you.

Lorde, Bleachers, Mitski and more have been announced for this year’s All Things Go music festival.The event will take place at Merriweather Post Pavillion on October 1, and is set to host 16 artists on multiple stages. King Princess, Bartees Strange, and Lucy Dacus are will also play the independent fest.

Mitski has announced details of new UK and Irish tour dates for this summer, ahead of an imminent, sold-out run of dates.As announced last year, the singer-songwriter will tour new album ‘Laurel Hell’ in the UK and Europe later this month, ending on April 29 with a London gig at Brixton Academy.Mitski will touch down in the UK on April 21 for gigs in Bristol, Leeds and Glasgow before visiting Dublin, Manchester and London. You can find tickets here.

Mitski has postponed two upcoming shows due to a positive COVID-19 test in her touring party.The Japanese-American artist is currently out on the road in the US in support of her acclaimed sixth album ‘Laurel Hell’, which came out on February 4.This week’s shows at Radio City Music Hall in New York tomorrow (March 24) and Franklin Music Hall in Philadelphia on Friday (March 25) will now take place at a later date, according to a post on Twitter. Earlier this week, Mitski’s shows in Boston were also postponed for the same reason.“This week’s Mitski shows in NYC and Philadelphia will be postponed due to a positive Covid test in the Mitski touring party,” the post read.

Mitski and David Byrne appear together on "This Is A Life," the first single from Son Lux's soundtrack to new A24 movie Everything Everywhere All At Once. You can hear what the three artists cooked up together below.

David Byrne and Mitski have released a new collaboration today (March 8). Listen to ‘This Is A Life’ below.The song features on the soundtrack for the new A24 film, Everything Everywhere All At Once.Son Lux have scored the sci-fi action film by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. The film is released in the US on March 25 (UK date TBA), while the soundtrack lands on April 8.Other contributions on the soundtrack come from Andre 3000, Randy Newman, Moses Sumney, Nina Moffitt, Chris Pattishall, Rob Moose, yMusic, Surrija, and actor Stephanie Hsu.Listen to ‘This Is A Life’ here:Sharing a statement about their work on the project, Sox Lux said: “Even though we knew from the moment Daniels asked us to score this film that it would push us in new and unexpected directions, we couldn’t have predicted how much we’d learn from the project.“What emerged was our most ambitious undertaking to date, over two years in the making, resulting in two hours of new music.

Mitski has performed ‘Stay Soft‘ from her new album ‘Laurel Hell‘ on Jimmy Kimmel Live.In the clip the singer-songwriter choreographs her performance with hand gestures, dancing and other theatrics. Watch it below.The musician is currently on tour in support of her sixth album, which NME hailed in a four-star review as her “grandest music yet”.In other news, Mitski has requested that fans stop filming “entire songs or whole sets” at her shows.She took to Twitter last month to post a “note” in which she asked audience members to be considerate about their mobile phone habits at gigs.“Hello! I wanted to speak with you about phones at shows,” she began.

Mitski is on tour across North America right now in support of her excellent new album Laurel Hell and the temptation for those without tickets (or even those with) is to hit YouTube and hear how new songs like "Stay Soft" and "Love Me More" and sounding live. It's become a habit aided by the fact that recording parts of, or even the whole show, has become a staple of live music alongside waiting in line for a drink and picking up merch. However, in a lengthy tweet thread posted on Thursday, Mitski has asked her supporters to try put their phones away and embrace living in the moment for an hour or two.

Mitski has requested that fans stop filming “entire songs or whole sets” at her shows in a statement on social media.The Japanese-American artist is currently out on the road in the US in support of her acclaimed sixth album ‘Laurel Hell’, which came out on February 4. She played in Houston, Texas last night (February 24) and is due to perform in Dallas this evening (25).Ahead of resuming her headline tour, Mitski took to Twitter yesterday to post a “note” in which she asked audience members to be considerate about their mobile phone habits at gigs.“Hello! I wanted to speak with you about phones at shows,” she began.

Mitski’s new album ‘Laurel Hell’ was the biggest-selling record in America in its first week of release, new figures have confirmed.The record, which was released on February 4, is currently at Number Five on the Billboard 200 chart, behind albums by Gunna, Yo Gotti and Morgan Wallen, as well as the Encanto soundtrack.Although it didn’t hit the top spot on the chart, ‘Laurel Hell’ did score the highest pure sales numbers of the week, Billboard has confirmed. Of 36,000 album-equivalent units, 24,000 were sales – as opposed to units made up by streaming figures or purchases of individual tracks.Of that number, 17,000 sales were on vinyl – giving Mitski the biggest sales week for vinyl since Adele’s ’30’ sold 35,000 copies in seven days last year.In the UK, ‘Laurel Hell’ reached Number Six on the Official UK Albums Chart and Number Three on the Official UK Independent Albums Chart.In a four-star review of the album, NME said: “With each record, Mitski’s sound has grown bigger and grander […] Much like ‘Be The Cowboy’ stand-out ‘Nobody’, ‘Laurel Hell’ often pairs darkness with strobing lights (see: ‘Should’ve Been Me’ and ‘Love Me More’).

Mitski's new album Laurel Hell is out today, February 4, and to celebrate she has released a video for "Stay Soft." Check it out above. Director Maegan Houang said in a statement: “This video is heavily inspired by Romanticism and paintings and artwork from the Victorian era.

Mitski has shared the music video for ‘Stay Soft’ to coincide with the release of her new album ‘Laurel Hell’ – watch below.‘Laurel Hell’, which is out today (February 4), follows 2018’s ‘Be The Cowboy’. Mitski previewed the album with the tracks ‘Working For The Knife’, ‘The Only Heartbreaker’, ‘Heat Lightning’ and ‘Love Me More’.The video for ‘Stay Soft’ is directed by Maegan Houang, who previously co-directed the visuals for ‘The Only Heartbreaker’.

Mitski has got candid about her decision to take a hiatus from music and how “absolutely terrible” it feels to be releasing new music.In 2019, the indie star announced on Twitter that a gig in New York’s central park would be her, “last show indefinitely”. When a fan responded to her now-deleted account, asking “You’ve been on the road for what…five years?” she responded, “Yeah.

Mitski has spoken about her decision to return to making music and touring following her indefinite hiatus in 2019.The indie star had announced that her headline show at New York’s Central Park Summerstage in September of that year would be her last “indefinitely”, but had assured fans she wasn’t quitting music entirely.In a new interview, Mitski has now explained that she did intend that to be the end of her artistic career.

Mitski has shared a new single called ‘Heat Lightning’ – listen below.The song will appear on the US singer-songwriter’s sixth album ‘Laurel Hell’, which is set to arrive on February 4 via Dead Oceans.“I needed songs that could help me forgive both others and myself…I needed to create this space mostly for myself where I sat in that grey area,” Mitski explained of ‘Heat Lightning’, a cut that started out on the piano.However, the single eventually transformed into a hypnotic R&B-influenced number that is an ode to insomnia and the “sleeping eyelid of the sky”.“And there’s nothing I can do/ Not much I can change/ Can I give it up to you/ Would that be okay?/ There’s nothing I can do/ Not much I can change/ I give it up to you/ I surrender,”

Mitski has shared details of a new headline London show set to take place next year and a slew of venue upgrades due to huge demand.The singer-songwriter returned earlier this month with new single ‘Working For The Knife’, her first new material since her 2018 album ‘Be The Cowboy’.

Mitski has returned with her new song ‘Working For The Knife’ and announced details of a UK and European tour for 2022.The track directly follows on from her 2018 album ‘Be The Cowboy’, and comes after the artist reassured her fans in 2019 that she wasn’t quitting music after announcing details of what would be her “last show indefinitely”.‘Working For The Knife’ has been released this afternoon (October 5).

Mitski is to make her comeback with a new single tomorrow (October 5).The musician, whose last album was 2018’s ‘Be The Cowboy‘, will premiere a new single on Tuesday at 10am ET (3pm BST) via her YouTube channel.It will mark her first material since her fifth album besides soundtrack contributions to the graphic novel This Is Where We Fall earlier in 2021 and her 2020 single collaboration with Allie X ‘Susie Save Your Love‘.In June 2019 Mitksi was compelled to assure fans that she wasn’t quitting music after having announcing details of what would be her “last show indefinitely”.The Dead Oceans-signed star performed at Summerstage in New York’s Central Park that September.

Mitski has shared ‘The End’, another track from her soundtrack to the graphic novel This Is Where We Fall, which is now out in stores.The track features cinematic instrumentation by Mitski, who sets the stage for narration by the graphic novel’s co-creator Chris Miskiewicz. This is the second track shared from the soundtrack, after March’s ‘The Baddy Man’.