“Like the mountain laurels for this new album is named, public perception, like the intoxicating prism of the internet, can offer an alluring faade that obscures a deadly trapone that tightens the more you struggle. Exhausted by this warped mirror, and our addiction to false binaries, Mitski 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 its hard to see the change when youre 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.” – Dead Oceans

• 4th studio album from Japanese-American singer songwriter Mitski
• opaque red colored vinyl
• housed in gatefold sleeve
• digital download included
• limited edition
• music label: Dead Oceans 2022

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