Listen to Mitski's New Album 'Nothing's About To Happen To Me'

Where Mitski's panoramic 2023 album The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We was released during what felt like a brief plateau of post-lockdown openness and reflection, the Japan-born US songwriting star's eighth studio long player Nothing's About to Happen to Me arrives in an even wilder new era. Mitski details an intriguing scenario of "a reclusive woman in an unkempt house" — provoking this listener to ponder the notion of "organised home / organised mind" — in an eleven song cycle where scuzzy textures and boppy, even wonky rhythms feel appropriate amidst the majesty.

Produced and engineered by Patrick Hyland, Mitski's palette roams from balladic alt-country intimacy to full blown orchestral sweep, utilising instrumentation by her The Land touring group throughout the record. Again considering loneliness, these are tunes to sink into and relate maybe much too strongly — 'Where's My Phone?' and 'Cats' anyone? Mitski's personal spin on outsidery urges feels vibrant, imaginative and weirdly topical in 2026. Out now via Dead Oceans, nab a physical copy of Nothing’s About to Happen to Me from good record stores, listen up below, and enjoy the videos for 'Where's My Phone?' (directed by Noel Paul) and 'If I Leave' (directed by Jared Hogan)...

'Nothing’s About to Happen to Me' is out today via Dead Oceans.