It’s hard to believe that Mitski’s last album The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We came out in 2023. She’s kept impressively busy, first putting on an incredible pop-turned-performance art tour then turning that tour into a live album and a film. (She’s also been writing the music and lyrics for a stage musical adaptation of ‘The Queen’s Gambit.’) But today the multidisciplinary artist is entering a new era: She’s revealed that her eighth studio album Nothing’s About To Happen To Me is dropping next month, and she’s shared the lead single “Where’s My Phone” with an artfully chaotic video directed by Noel Paul.
For the new album, according to a press release, Mitski is “immersing herself in a rich narrative whose main character is a reclusive woman in an unkempt house. Outside of her home, she is a deviant; inside of her home, she is free.” This all comes a bit into focus with the new music video: In a blue velvet coat and silk headscarf, Mitski gets water from a well, runs around a gorgeous Victorian-style house, and freaks out at townspeople invading her space. It feels like Darren Aronofsky’s Mother!-meets-Grey Gardens.
Nothing’s About To Happen To Me was produced and engineered by Patrick Hyland and mastered by Bob Weston. Mitski wrote all the songs and performed all the vocals. It also features live instrumentation by The Land touring band and orchestral arrangements by Drew Erickson. Marc Burkhardt did the cover art painting and New Yorker cartoonist Emily Flake drew an interpretation of the new single.
Watch the video for “Where’s My Phone” below.
TRACKLIST:
01 “In A Lake”
02 “Where’s My Phone?”
03 “Cats”
04 “If I Leave”
05 “Dead Women”
06 “Instead Of Here”
07 “I’ll Change For You”
08 “Rules”
09 “That White Cat”
10 “Charon’s Obol”
11 “Lightning”
Nothing’s About To Happen To Me is out 2/27 via Dead Oceans. Pre-order it here.
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