Name: Laurel Hell
Brand: Mitski

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DOC250LP-C7

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Ruby and White Bloom Vinyl

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Format Music US

Limited edition

1500

Release date

2022-11-18

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Secre­tly

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Sales:8.875

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0617308032550

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Artist

Mitski

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Dead Oceans

Mitski Miyawaki is a New York based indie rock performer. Born in Japan as Mitsuki Laycock on September 27, 1990, she has gained recognition for her unique and powerful musical style.
With her emotionally charged lyrics and captivating stage presence, Mitski has become a prominent figure in the indie music scene. Her music explores themes of identity, love, and personal growth, resonating with listeners around the world.
Having released several critically acclaimed albums, including "Be the Cowboy" and "Bury Me at Makeout Creek," Mitski continues to push boundaries with her innovative sound. Her raw talent and honest storytelling make her an artist worth listening to.

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We don’t typically look to pop albums to answer our cultural moment, let alone to meet the soul hunger left in the wake of global catastrophe. But occasionally, an artist proves the form more malleable and capacious than we knew. With Laurel Hell, Mitski cements her reputation as an artist in possession of such power - capable of using her talent to perform the alchemy that turns our most savage and alienated experiences into the very elixir that cures them. Her critically beloved last album, Be the Cowboy, built on the breakout acclaim of 2016’s Puberty 2 and launched her from cult favorite to indie star. She ascended amid a fever of national division, and the grind of touring and pitfalls of increased visibility influenced her music as much as her spirit. Like the mountain laurels for this new album is named, public perception, like the intoxicating prism of the internet, can offer an alluring façade that obscures a deadly trap—one that tightens the more you struggle. Exhausted by this warped mirror, and our addiction to false binaries, she began writing songs that stripped away the masks and revealed the complex and often contradictory realities behind them. She wrote many of these songs during or before 2018, while the album finished mixing in May 2021. It is the longest span of time Mitski has ever spent on a record, and a process that concluded amid a radically changed world. She recorded Laurel Hell with her longtime producer Patrick Hyland throughout the isolation of a global pandemic, during which some of the songs “slowly took on new forms and meanings, like seed to flower.” Sometimes it’s hard to see the change when you’re the agent of it, but for the lucky rest of us, Mitski has written a soundtrack for transformation, a map to the place where vulnerability and resilience, sorrow and delight, error and transcendence can all sit within our humanity, can all be seen as worthy of acknowledgment, and ultimately, love.

CD variants: There are four limited edition alternate versions of Laurel Hell: the Stay Soft Get Eaten CDs. Each edition makes up one quadrant of a greater image so that when all four are put together, one cohesive exclusive image of Mitski appears. Each edition is named after a line from the hook of the album’s third track “Stay Soft”: “STAY Version,” “SOFT Version,” “GET Version,” and “EATEN Version.” These are signified by the version titles being in the corner of each slipcover.

Laurel Hell

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Discover Laurel Hell by Mitski. Limited edition formats available: Tape, LP, CD. Exclusive versions with a cohesive image of Mitski. Label: Dead Oceans.