Photo Credit: Ebru Yildiz
Mitski has announced that she will release her seventh album, The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We on September 15th via Dead Oceans. Today, she releases two new songs, “Star” and “Heaven,” following lead single, “Bug Like an Angel,” offering a further glimpse into The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We, Mitski’s most sonically expansive, epic, and wise album to-date, and announces European and UK intimate acoustic performances titled Amateur Mistake (on sale information included below). Mitski wrote these songs in little bursts over the past few years, with both “Heaven” and “Star” dating back years and taking varied shapes before reaching their final iterations.
The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We was recorded at both the Bomb Shelter in East Nashville and the aforementioned Sunset Sound Studios. For the first time, it felt important to Mitski to have a band recording live together in the studio. Working with her longtime producer Patrick Hyland, the album is 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.
You can pre-order the album here.
