The musician Mitski came out with a new album on February 27, “Nothing’s About To Happen To Me”. Overall, the album was a great representation of isolation and change, themes that are relevant to her life experiences shown through her music. This album would be great for people who are fans of Laufey or Fiona Apple.

The music on the album is very much like Mitski’s older albums, I’d compare it more to her 2022 album “Laurel Hell,” which had a similar feel of the instruments and sound of the songs not meeting the depth of emotion or story of the lyrics. While the melody of the song sounds more upbeat, the lyrics can come across more depressing.

I first listened to Mitski’s most popular song from the album “Where’s My Phone?”, having over 11 million streams off the album itself. I enjoyed this song’s melody and instrumentals, which was interestingly opposite of the lyrics, making the song seem upbeat and happier while the lyrics talk about, what I interpreted, as isolation clouding the narrator of the song’s mind and wanting with “clear glass with nothing in my mind?”. 

In the majority of her songs in the new album, she talks about how living alone can be isolating but also refreshing for the mind. In the song “If I Leave,” the lyrics are said in a way that feels discerning but the lyrics themselves are filled with self-isolation and degrading phrases like no one would remember her. 

Though, I think it’s not about her pitying herself but more as her trying a shallow way of asking for help from someone she thinks would not care if she left because they’d have someone else to replace her.

Near the end of the album from the first song to the last, the songs seem to go from self-destroying to rebuilding yourself as a person. I thought the overall runtime of the album was a good quick listen with songs that if you like to dig into there’s a deeper meaning.

Overall, if you’re into alternative indie music and like music with deeper meanings, you can find Mitski’s new album on streaming platforms like Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Music.