Mitski - Laurel Hell (Gold Vinyl) YNGT80.1

Mitski - Laurel Hell (Gold Vinyl) YNGT80.1We 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

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wrangling special guests like sax star Jaleel Shaw (Roy Haynes

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the album segues into the similarly bodacious rocker “Motorcycle Boy”—a feisty love song inspired by classic cinema outlaws like Mickey Rourke