Mitski Laurel Hell (Stay Version)

4 stars out of 5 -- ""Working with longtime collaborator Patrick Hyland, Mitski lets her arrangements and Eighties-pastiche pop textures do much of the heavy narrative lifting this time around..."
"She's telling stories in all of them, painfully human and profoundly existential, like a peak-power Joni Mitchell."
"Songs crash and surge, careening from hypnotic road-trip hymnals to Velvet Underground dirges and shimmering starlit disco."
Billboard - "11 tracks that clock in at just 32 minutes, the singer-songwriter lays bare the frustration and alienation that come with fame, in a mosaic of free verses and punchy synth hooks."
"With each record, Mitski's sound has grown bigger and grander -- all while keeping the raw drama of her piano-driven 2012 debut album LUSH and 2016's PUBERTY 2's air of haunting gloom."
Clash (Magazine) - "Considering the capital she made of her own vulnerability, the entire record traces a path between elation and darkness, softness yet shielded as she suddenly seems aware of her audience."