rachel
Icy and distant, I didn't appreciate Laurel Hell at first, but that was because I hadn't found the piece of me that could understand it. I found it. It hurt.
Laurel Hell is artistic but not at the expense of its honesty and vulnerable without sacrificing technical mastery...Mitski's done it again.
Favorite track: I Guess.
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Nearly no skips album (sorry stay soft !) impecable addition to the collection. i feel like if mitski went full recluse and was given full creative control she would produce a god tier album like fetch the bolt cutters or have one on me. this is like pope level good.
Favorite track: Valentine, Texas.
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Laurel Hell on Exclusive Triple Button Red with Black vinyl
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via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
"1. 'Laurel Hell' on black vinyl
2. Instant download of 'Working for the Knife' and 'The Only Heartbreaker'
3. Digital download code for the album (as a .zip file containing 320kbps mp3s) redeemable on release day"
Includes unlimited streaming of Laurel Hell
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 5 days
Purchasable with gift card
$26.98USDor more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
"1. 'Laurel Hell' on CD
2. Instant download of 'Working for the Knife' and 'The Only Heartbreaker'
3. Digital download code for the album (as a .zip file containing 320kbps mp3s) redeemable on release day"
Includes unlimited streaming of Laurel Hell
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 5 days
Purchasable with gift card
$14.98USDor more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
With the art lover, the collector, and the super-fan in mind, four limited edition slip covers are offered for the standard CD. Each slip cover is graced with snaking lyrics excerpted from "Valentine, Texas"—the opening track of Laurel Hell—and each slip cover features special silver ink and a different typographic design. Inside the slip cover you will find the standard CD and packaging.
The series includes four versions: STAY, SOFT, GET, EATEN
1. 'Laurel Hell' on CD with STAY Art
2. Instant download of 'Working for the Knife' and 'The Only Heartbreaker'
3. Digital download code for the album (as a .zip file containing 320kbps mp3s) redeemable on release day
Includes unlimited streaming of Laurel Hell
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 5 days
Purchasable with gift card
$14.98USDor more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
With the art lover, the collector, and the super-fan in mind, four limited edition slip covers are offered for the standard CD. Each slip cover is graced with snaking lyrics excerpted from "Valentine, Texas"—the opening track of Laurel Hell—and each slip cover features special silver ink and a different typographic design. Inside the slip cover you will find the standard CD and packaging.
The series includes four versions: STAY, SOFT, GET, EATEN
Includes:
1. 'Laurel Hell' on CD with SOFT Art
2. Instant download of 'Working for the Knife' and 'The Only Heartbreaker'
3. Digital download code for the album (as a .zip file containing 320kbps mp3s) redeemable on release day
Includes unlimited streaming of Laurel Hell
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 5 days
Purchasable with gift card
$14.98USDor more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
With the art lover, the collector, and the super-fan in mind, four limited edition slip covers are offered for the standard CD. Each slip cover is graced with snaking lyrics excerpted from "Valentine, Texas"—the opening track of Laurel Hell—and each slip cover features special silver ink and a different typographic design. Inside the slip cover you will find the standard CD and packaging.
The series includes four versions: STAY, SOFT, GET, EATEN
Includes:
1. 'Laurel Hell' on CD with GET Art
2. Instant download of 'Working for the Knife' and 'The Only Heartbreaker'
3. Digital download code for the album (as a .zip file containing 320kbps mp3s) redeemable on release day
Includes unlimited streaming of Laurel Hell
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 5 days
Purchasable with gift card
$14.98USDor more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
With the art lover, the collector, and the super-fan in mind, four limited edition slip covers are offered for the standard CD. Each slip cover is graced with snaking lyrics excerpted from "Valentine, Texas"—the opening track of Laurel Hell—and each slip cover features special silver ink and a different typographic design. Inside the slip cover you will find the standard CD and packaging.
The series includes four versions: STAY, SOFT, GET, EATEN
Includes:
1. 'Laurel Hell' on CD with EATEN Art
2. Instant download of 'Working for the Knife' and 'The Only Heartbreaker'
3. Digital download code for the album (as a .zip file containing 320kbps mp3s) redeemable on release day
Includes unlimited streaming of Laurel Hell
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 5 days
Purchasable with gift card
$14.98USDor more
Mitski / Laurel Hell / Red Solid Cassette
Cassette + Digital Album
"1. 'Laurel Hell' on Red Solid Cassette
2. Instant download of 'Working for the Knife' and 'The Only Heartbreaker'
3. Digital download code for the album (as a .zip file containing 320kbps mp3s) redeemable on release day"
Includes unlimited streaming of Laurel Hell
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
We 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 them.
Her critically beloved last album, Be the Cowboy, built on the breakout acclaim of 2016’s Puberty 2 and launched her from cult favorite to indie star. She ascended amid a fever of national division, and the grind of touring and pitfalls of increased visibility influenced her music as much as her spirit. Like the mountain laurels for this new album is named, public perception, like the intoxicating prism of the internet, can offer an alluring façade that obscures a deadly trap—one that tightens the more you struggle. Exhausted by this warped mirror, and our addiction to false binaries, she began writing songs that stripped away the masks and revealed the complex and often contradictory realities behind them.
She wrote many of these songs during or before 2018, while the album finished mixing in May 2021. It is the longest span of time Mitski has ever spent on a record, and a process that concluded amid a radically changed world. She recorded Laurel Hell with her longtime producer Patrick Hyland throughout the isolation of a global pandemic, during which some of the songs “slowly took on new forms and meanings, like seed to flower.” Sometimes it’s hard to see the change when you’re the agent of it, but for the lucky rest of us, Mitski has written a soundtrack for transformation, a map to the place where vulnerability and resilience, sorrow and delight, error and transcendence can all sit within our humanity, can all be seen as worthy of acknowledgment, and ultimately, love.
Swansea Skag cuts a defiant path through indie, writing songs that embrace lo-fi balladry as effortlessly as they do wild experimentation. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 4, 2023
Every song is a grower and this is a great album. I didn't discover it until this year (2022) or it would have easily been on my best of the year when it came out. Carlos Parlos (cp49)
