It’s been a long, cold number of years for Mitski fans, that haven’t had new music from the 31-year-old singer-songwriter to sob along to since the release of her last cd, Be the Cowboy, in 2018. (And also think me, there were some long, lonely pandemic evenings when the only offered balm was listening to 2016’s The age of puberty 2 completely with.) On Tuesday, however, Mitski launched a new video for a solitary entitled “Working for the Knife.” Enjoy the full video listed below:
Mitski has actually taken a substantial break from public life over the previous few years, logging off social media and revealing that she ‘d be playing her “last program forever” following her 2019 Be the Cowboy trip, yet she’s back as well as better than ever before on “Helping the Blade,” which combines her trademark mix of lyrical alienation and hope (example line: “I sob at the start of every flick/ I guess ’cause I want I was making points also”) with a disorienting yet just-right walk with an empty performance location in upstate New York.It really feels reductive to call “Benefiting the Blade” a late-pandemic anthem, yet the track as well as video most definitely capture some of the surreality and solitude that a lot of us have really felt over the past 2 years. Luckily for those in The United States And Canada and also Europe, though, Mitski simply announced an upcoming trip in the springtime of 2022; ideally, soon enough, we’ll all be able to guide and cry to her music together, equally as the indie gods intended.