Ask Mitski Miyawaki about happiness and she'll warn you: "Happiness fucks you." It's a lesson that's been writ large into the New Yorker's gritty, outsider-indie for years, but never so powerfully as on her newest album, 'Puberty 2'. "Happiness is up, sadness is down, but one's almost more destructive than the other," she says. "When you realise you can't have one without the other, it's possible to spend periods of happiness just waiting for that other wave." On 'Puberty 2', that tension is palpable: a both beautiful and brutal romantic hinterland, in which one of America's new voices hits a brave new stride.
TRACKLIST:
A1 Happy
A2 Dan The Dancer
A3 Once More To See You
A4 Fireworks
A5 Your Best American Girl
B1 I Bet On Losing Dogs
B2 My Body's Made Of Crushed Little Stars
B3 Thursday Girl
B4 A Loving Feeling
B5 Crack Baby
B6 A Burning Hill