Mitski
Biography
Songwriter, musician and performer Mitski has released five full-length albums. The most recent of which, 2018’s Be The Cowboy, was named Album of the Year by the likes of Pitchfork, Vulture, Consequence, ESQUIRE, and FLOOD, and the #2 Album of 2018 by The New York Times (Jon Pareles), NPR Musicand SPIN. It launched Mitski from cult favorite to indie star, landing her an extensive profile in The New Yorker and performances on Austin City Limits and Jimmy Kimmel Live! (she played The Late Show with Stephen Colbert following the release of 2016’s Puberty 2). After being off the road since September 2019, Mitski makes a daring return with new single/video “Working For The Knife,” which signifies a new intensity we haven’t yet seen from her yet. She’ll tour in 2022, playing theaters throughout the country, including Radio City Music Hall in New York, Shrine Exposition Hall in LA, Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, and more.
Video & Press
Mitski is More Than TikTok
[New York Times Magazine] By Lindsay Zoladz / Photographs by Arielle Bobb-Willis At the end of the summer of 2019, the indie musician Mitski was on top of the world, and she was exhausted. Mitski (whose last name is Miyawaki, though she doesn’t use it professionally) was wrapping up a long, triumphant tour for her acclaimed 2018 album, […]
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Mitski Steps Back Into the Darkness
On her new album, “Laurel Hell,” the singer-songwriter delves into electronics and ambivalence. [New York Times] By Jon Pareles “Let’s step carefully into the dark,” Mitski sings to begin her new album, “Laurel Hell,” and continues, “Once we’re in I’ll remember my way around.” Strategic, sure-footed, vulnerable and prepared to face all sorts of trouble: That […]
Mitski Shares Video for New Song “Love Me More”: Watch
[Pitchfork] A visual from director Christopher Good, who also directed the video for “Nobody” By Evan Minsker Mitski has released another track from her forthcoming LP Laurel Hell, which is out February 4 via Dead Oceans. “Love Me More” comes with a video directed by Christopher Good, who previously directed “Nobody.” Watch it below. Mitski said of the new song […]
Mitski Shares Video for New Song “Heat Lightning”: Watch
[Pitchfork] Her latest Laurel Hell single arrives with an animated lyric video created by Alex Moy By Madison Bloom Mitski has released another track from her forthcoming LP Laurel Hell. It’s called “Heat Lightning,” and it arrives with an animated lyric video created by Alex Moy. Check it out below. Laurel Hell is out February 4 via Dead Oceans. The follow-up to Mitski’s […]
Mitski Shares “Working for the Knife” Video, Announces 2022 Tour
[Paste Magazine] The cult singer/songwriter has released her first new single since 2018 By Scott Russell Mitski Miyawaki, the singer/songwriter mononymously known as Mitski, is back with her first proper new material in over three years. Her single “Working for the Knife” is out now along with a music video, and the artist has announced a […]
The Misreading of Mitski
[The New Yorker] By Jia Tolentino Mitski, the twenty-eight-year-old singer-songwriter who, this past August, put out “Be the Cowboy,” one of the best albums of the year, is a star. This isn’t a question of crowd size—although she did open for Lorde on an arena tour earlier this year and, at the beginning of December, […]
Mitski’s Many Lives
[NPR] Mitski Miyawaki says she’s lived many different lives in her one body. On her new album, she’s taking on the spirit of a charismatic, swaggering cowboy. “I just kept telling myself, ‘Be the cowboy you wish to see in the world.’ Kind of a play on, ‘Be the change you wish to see in […]