The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We - Vinyle Rose

Description

Sometimes, Mitski says, it feels like life would be easier without hope, or a soul, or love, but when she closes her eyes and thinks of what truly belongs to her, of what cannot be taken away or torn down, she sees love. Mitski considers her greatest accomplishment to be having loved people, and she hopes her album, *The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We*, will continue to radiate that love long after she’s gone. Listening to it, this is exactly what one feels: the sensation of a love that haunts the land. This seventh album is her most American album, and the music feels like a profound act of bearing witness to the country, in all its private sorrows and aching contradictions. On this album, which is Mitski’s most sonically expansive, epic, and wise, the songs seem to introduce wounds and then actively heal them. Here, love is a journey through time to bless our tender days, like the light of a distant star. The album is filled with adult pain, the seemingly mundane sorrows and joys that are often overlooked but carry immense weight. It is a small epic. From the bottom of a drink, to a snow-soaked alleyway and memories, to a freight train cutting through the Midwest, and all the way to the moon, it feels like everything, and everyone, is screaming, howling in pain, arching toward love. Love is this inhospitable land that calls to us and then rejects us. To love this place — this land, this America, this body — requires active work. Perhaps it's impossible. The best things are.