Mitski "Laurel Hell" COLOR:OPAQUE GOLD is celebrating its 20th anniversary

is celebrating its 20th anniversary with its first ever vinyl pressing

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The album's rhythm is a complex mathematical interplay

“It’s okay to be lighthearted in the face of despair

Mitski "Laurel Hell" COLOR:OPAQUE GOLD is celebrating its 20th anniversaryWe dont 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