Mitski – New Zealand Net Radio

Album of the Week: Mitski – Nothing’s About To Happen To Me

Indie favourite Mitski is back. As usual there is something different. In this case not so much stylistic (unlike her last Country flavoured album) as thematic. This is a concept album about an isolated woman, perhaps seen as mad and influenced by the Shirley Jackson novel We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Have a listen to the NPR discussion of Mitski and the album:

https://www.npr.org/player/embed/nx-s1-5726289/nx-s1-9667421

New Zealand Net Radio plays a song from our irregularly updated #albumoftheweek every hour from 9am to 12pm. Listen in @tunein at http://tun.in/sfAtE or on the web player.

Album of the Week: Mitski – The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We

New Zealand Net Radio plays a song from our irregularly updated #albumoftheweek every hour from 9am to 12pm. Listen in @tunein at http://tun.in/sfAtE or on the web player.

Mitski had burnt out on the demands of the music business and the demands of ‘representation’, in her case pigeonholed due her Asian American heritage. The break led to this album, her “most American album … This land, which already feels inhospitable to so many of its inhabitants, is about to feel hopelessly torn and tossed again – at times, devoid of love. This album offers the anodyne”.

With an interesting range of influences this is a rich album – less synth pop than its predecessor Laurel Hell and more settled, although still with a rich soundscape. Alexis Petridis in The Guardian described it perfectly as “Playing country-inflected orchestral pop with sardonic wit and deep feeling, Mitski underlines why she’s one of the very best singer-songwriters working today”.

New Music Friday: 6 July 2018

Its Friday so its time for five brand new tracks to get their first spin on the hour every hour from 9am. We’ll keep playing these tracks on New Zealand Net Radio, home of streaming radio ad free 24/7 throughout New Zealand.

Florence & The Machine – Big God