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Spandex, soul-searching and transgressive sexuality: The best albums of 2022
- THE COUNTDOWN: There was oversharing and tubthumping aplenty in 2022, but largely in the spirit of musical renaissance and tentative celebration. Mark Beaumont and Helen Brown pick their favourites
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Mitski at the Roundhouse – Björk-like brilliance for the TikTok era
“Love me more,” Mitski begged the audience during the opening song of her show at London’s Roundhouse. It swiftly transpired that she needn’t have asked. On the penultimate night of a mostly sold-out tour, an ardent young crowd hung on to the Japanese-American artist’s every word, invested in her every move.
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Mitski review – throwing shapes and cutting loose for pop’s most ardent fans
The singer-songwriter uses drama and choreography to draw attention to her as a performer – perhaps as a means of self-preservation
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Mitski asks fans to reconsider filming entire songs at her live shows: ‘It makes me feel as though we are not here together’
Artist is currently touring the US in support of her new album, ‘Laurel Hell’
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Mitski: Laurel Hell review – a deep dive you can dance to
The indie artist delivers devastating emotional truths and unsettling imagery – with sharp hooks and an 80s pop sheen
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Mitski: Laurel Hell, review: Harry Styles fans are in for a melancholic shock
In 2019, Mitski, the indie-rock singer who made her name with emotionally charged albums about the highs and lows of modern life and relationships, told her fans that she was quitting music. Only two years later, however, she’s back, and the isolation of the pandemic appears to have offered her the perfect vehicle for reinvention – if at a cost.
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First Thing: Thousands evacuated after US fertilizer plant fire
About 6,500 are under evacuation orders in North Carolina. Plus, Mitski on being ‘consumed’
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Mitski review, Laurel Hell: Artist owns her contrariness on this free-sounding jumble of ideas
4/5 The tension between a craving to dance and the yearning to walk away dominates the new record
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Mitski - Laurel Hell review: A strong return for this fame-shy singer
4/5 The Japanese-American musician may find her success uncomfortable - but she still sounds great
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Tracks of the week reviewed: Hayley Williams, Mitski, Stephen Malkmus
Tracks of the week reviewed: Hayley Williams, Mitski, Stephen Malkmus. This week we’ve got some dark leftfield pop, a slab of pastiche-rock, and a slice of slacker rock that’s simply slack
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Mitski review, Shepherd's Bush Empire: An extraordinary, provocative performance
Mitski has a complicated relationship with intimacy – both the romantic kind (on her new album Be the Cowboy, she is desperate and lonely one minute, hardened and withdrawn the next) and the kind she shares with her fans. Fans of Mitski tend to conflate their empathy with familiarity, convinced that relating to her songs has earned them the right to stake a claim to her. Perhaps it is an act of self-defence then, or self-preservation at least, that at tonight’s show at Shepherd’s Bush Empire,
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