Charlie597

Greatest left turn in music history? I think so.

This album marks the peak of Mitski indie-rocker transformation. Her instrumentation progresses further down the same path as it led in Makeout Creek, and while I don’t consider there to be as many powerful tracks the lyricism is damn good! sometimes downright sexy, and i simply love that honesty. Mitski continues to deliver quality on “Puberty 2” which expresses sexual frustration (and the woes of depression tied to it) like nothing else out there.

Mitski’s “Bury Me at Makeout Creek” is a beautifully unbridled expression of simultaneous frustration and magnificence. For all the raunchyness of tracks like “I Don’t Smoke” there is the perfect delicacy of tracks like “Francis Forever” which alludes to a more familiar Mitski. In many ways, this album marked a transitional phase, in which guitars took the place of keyboards in Mitski’s production, and acoustic drums swept aside the drum ... read more

Honestly, I went in not expecting to like this album nearly as much as I did. Let me say that I am a massive, and I mean MASSIVE Mitski fan, yet when she went the 80s synth pop route on “Laurel Hell” I was left somewhat unimpressed. “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess” taps into the same style, yet Roan approaches is it in a way I find both genuine and inoffensive. Roan is often explicit in her lyricism, which is maybe indicative of larger shift towards greater ... read more