Mitski "Be The Cowboy" 2024-03-01 Not that they were looking

Not that they were looking for a new direction

dark Americana with songwriting on the razor's edge of aggression and deftness

Beautiful Freak is a satisfying first record

being the first album to be released on Reprise Records

Mitski "Be The Cowboy" 2024-03-01 Not that they were lookingThe breakout success of 2016s Puberty 2 saw Mitski hailed as the new vanguard of indie rock, the one to save the genre from the white dudes whove historically dominated it. But the often overlooked aspect of being a rising star is the sheer amount of work that goes into it. I had been on the road for a long time, which is so isolating, and had to run my own business at the same time, Mitski explains, a lot of this record was me not having any