{"product_id":"laurel-hell","title":"Laurel Hell","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe don’t typically look to pop albums to answer our cultural moment,\u003cbr\u003elet alone to meet the soul hunger left in the wake of global catastrophe.\u003cbr\u003eBut occasionally, an artist proves the form more malleable and capacious\u003cbr\u003ethan we knew. With Laurel Hell, Mitski cements her reputation as an artist\u003cbr\u003ein possession of such power - capable of using her talent to perform\u003cbr\u003ethe alchemy that turns our most savage and alienated experiences into\u003cbr\u003ethe very elixir that cures them. Her critically beloved last album, Be the\u003cbr\u003eCowboy, built on the breakout acclaim of 2016’s Puberty 2 and launched\u003cbr\u003eher from cult favorite to indie star. She ascended amid a fever of national\u003cbr\u003edivision, and the grind of touring and pitfalls of increased visibility\u003cbr\u003einfluenced her music as much as her spirit. Like the mountain laurels for\u003cbr\u003ethis new album is named, public perception, like the intoxicating prism of\u003cbr\u003ethe internet, can offer an alluring façade that obscures a deadly trap—one\u003cbr\u003ethat tightens the more you struggle. Exhausted by this warped mirror,\u003cbr\u003eand our addiction to false binaries, she began writing songs that stripped\u003cbr\u003eaway the masks and revealed the complex and often contradictory\u003cbr\u003erealities behind them. She wrote many of these songs during or before\u003cbr\u003e2018, while the album finished mixing in May 2021. It is the longest span\u003cbr\u003eof time Mitski has ever spent on a record, and a process that concluded\u003cbr\u003eamid a radically changed world. She recorded Laurel Hell with her\u003cbr\u003elongtime producer Patrick Hyland throughout the isolation of a global\u003cbr\u003epandemic, during which some of the songs “slowly took on new forms\u003cbr\u003eand meanings, like seed to flower.” Sometimes it’s hard to see the change\u003cbr\u003ewhen you’re the agent of it, but for the lucky rest of us, Mitski has written\u003cbr\u003ea soundtrack for transformation, a map to the place where vulnerability\u003cbr\u003eand resilience, sorrow and delight, error and transcendence can all sit\u003cbr\u003ewithin our humanity, can all be seen as worthy of acknowledgment, and\u003cbr\u003eultimately, love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mitski","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56568286380404,"sku":"sux1793034999545","price":18.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1002\/4763\/4292\/files\/laurel-hell_1.jpg?v=1793035014","url":"https:\/\/feathertrimmedclad.shop\/products\/laurel-hell","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}