“The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We” is an album with maddening contradictions at its heart. It embraces Americana on Mitski’s most stripped back album since her college years, but it feels like her loudest record to date. It’s home to some of the most vivid depictions of self-loathing you’re likely to hear all year, but it feels like a comforting renewal. Lastly and most crucially, “The Land Is Inhospitable” does almost nothing but grapple with the ...
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