{"product_id":"656605165080","title":"MITSKI – LAND IS INHOSPITABLE \u0026 SO ARE WE - TAPE •","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC: 656605165080 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLabel: DEAD OCEANS \u003cbr\u003eFormat: TAPE\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: September 15, 2023\u003cbr\u003eIn stock items ship within 48 hours\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"track\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSometimes, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMitski\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e says, it feels like life would be easier without hope, or a soul, or love. But when she closes her eyes and thinks about what’s truly hers, what can’t be repossessed or demolished, she sees love. “The best thing I ever did in my life was to love people,” Mitski says. “I wish I could leave behind all the love I have, after I die, so that I can shine all this goodness, all this good love that I’ve created onto other people.” She hopes her newest album, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, will continue to shine that love long after she’s gone. Listening to it, that’s precisely how it feels: like a love that’s haunting the land.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLove is always radical, which means that it always disrupts, which means that it always takes work to receive it. 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. This album offers the anodyne. “This is my most American album,” Mitski says about her seventh record, and the music feels like a profound act of witnessing this country, in all of its private sorrows and painful contradictions. But “maybe it’s beyond witnessing,” she says. At times, it feels like the album is an exercise in negative capability – a fearless embodiment and absorption of the pain of other bodies. When I ask her what the album would look like, if it were a person, she says it would be someone middle-aged and exhausted, perhaps someone having a midlife crisis. But through the daily indignity and exhaustion, something enormous and ecstatic is calling out. In this album, which is sonically Mitski’s most expansive, epic, and wise, the songs seem to be introducing wounds and then actively healing them. Here, love is time-traveling to bless our tender days, like the light from a distant star.    \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMitski wrote these songs in little bursts over the past few years, and they feel informed by moments of noticing – noticing a sound that’s out of place, a building that groans in decay, an opinion that splits a room, a feeling that can’t be contained in a body. It was recorded at both the Bomb Shelter in East Nashville and the Sunset Sound Studios in Los Angeles. The album incorporates an orchestra arranged and conducted by Drew Erickson, as well as a full choir of 17 people - 12 in LA and 5 in Nashville - arranged by Mitski. And for the first time, it felt important to Mitski to have a band recording live together in the studio, to create this new sublime sound. Working with her longtime producer \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePatrick Hyland\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, the album has a wide-range of references, from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEnnio Morricone\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e’s bombastic Spaghetti Western scores to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCarter Burwell\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e’s tundra-filling \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFargo \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003esoundtrack, from the breathy intimacy of Arthur Russell to the strident aliveness of Scott Walker or Igor Stravinsky, from the jubilation of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCaetano Veloso\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e to the twangy longing of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFaron Young\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTRACK LIST:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"track\"\u003e1. Bug Like an Angel\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"track\"\u003e2. Buffalo Replaced\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"track\"\u003e3. Heaven\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"track\"\u003e4. I Don’t Like My Mind\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"track\"\u003e5. The Deal\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"track\"\u003e6. When Memories Snow\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"track\"\u003e7. My Love Mine All Mine\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"track\"\u003e8. The Frost\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"track\"\u003e9. Star\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"track\"\u003e10. I’m Your Man\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"track\"\u003e11. I Love Me After You\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"track\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"DEAD OCEANS","offers":[{"title":"TAPE","offer_id":40727409066083,"sku":"656605165080","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/2553\/7123\/files\/image_eb2c63cf-b048-47a0-92b4-ea7aefaa5046.png?v=1694529042","url":"https:\/\/lunchboxrecords.com\/products\/656605165080","provider":"Lunchbox Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}