The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We

2023, Sep 15

Apple Spotify Discogs Singer-Songwriter Indie Folk 99 Highly Rated Dead Oceans Indieheads 624 Pitchfork 8.1/10 The Needle Drop 8/10 NME 4/5 The Line of Best Fit 9/10 Evening Standard 4/5 Paste 8.9/10 Rolling Stone 4/5 Dork 5/5 DIY 4.5/5 The Independent 5/5 All Music 4/5 The Skinny 5/5 Exclaim! 9/10 Under The Radar 9.0/10 Clash 8/10 Mojo 4/5 The Observer 4/5 Loud and Quiet 8/10 Slant 4.5/5 Pop Matters 8/10 Northern Transmissions 9.0/10 The Guardian 5/5 Spectrum Culture 92% music OMH 4.5/5 Beats Per Minute 85% Sputnikmusic 3.6/5 The Telegraph 5/5 The Arts Desk 4/5 Uncut 8/10

Pitchfork 8.1/10 After contemplating retirement, Mitski returns with a new album that’s warmer, quieter, and more organic-sounding. For the first time in a while, she sounds like she has space to breathe.

NME 4/5 The US artist's second post-hiatus record does away with the glossy sheen and favours hushed intimacy. Read the NME review

The Line of Best Fit 9/10 The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We borrow the instrumental approach of American film soundtracks and country music. With songs so rooted in the sunlit canyons and arid plains, this is indeed Mitski's “most American” output

Evening Standard 4/5 If she tried playing those songs to Harry Styles’s stadium screamers she’d lose them instantly, but on headphones, ideally in the dark, she can mesmerise

Rolling Stone 4/5 Mitski's 'The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We' Review

DIY 4.5/5 No other record today sounds so beautiful and full while being quite so sparse.

The Independent 5/5 US artist bolsters raw country narratives with an orchestrated melodrama

The Skinny 5/5 Mitski's seventh record is a brutally honest chronicle of the struggle to find self-love.

Clash 8/10 ‘The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We’ is Mitski at her most emotionally raw. The artist’s seventh record starts with the mellow ‘Bug Like an Angel’ –

The Observer 4/5 The Japanese-American singer-songwriter sounds deceptively sweet on this lush, contemplative album largely recorded in Nashville

Loud and Quiet 8/10 The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We by Mitski album review: the work of an artist who sounds creatively rejuvenated

Slant 4.5/5 The singer’s ability to pack so many gut-punches and inspired ideas into half an hour remains uncannily impactful.

Pop Matters 8/10 Mitski's 'The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We' marks a shift away from her earlier work toward a more mainstream sound that might even be called Americana.

The Guardian 5/5 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

The Telegraph 5/5 The uncompromising 72-year-old Pretenders rocker will surely propel the band to the top of the charts for the first time in 30 years