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- Summary: The fifth full-length release for the New York City indie rock artist was recorded with producer Patrick Hyland.
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- Record Label: Dead Oceans Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Positive: 30 out of 30
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Mixed: 0 out of 30
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Negative: 0 out of 30
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Aug 17, 2018Mitski’s songwriting trademarks are strong enough to transcend the stylistic revamp--arrangements that are rich without being precious (Pink in the Night), plus her terrifically mordant worldview.
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Aug 14, 2018Be the Cowboy shows that love and loss can be grand and small at the same time. That two minutes is more than enough time to melt down emotion into a pure concentrate and nearly drown yourself in it. That every moment can be a epic love story, that every heartbreak can be as hard and small as a pearl and just as coveted.
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Aug 17, 2018Though it’s a record perspiring uncertainty and the fear of becoming stagnant, Be The Cowboy is Mitski’s most personal and confrontational thus far. It’s violently poignant and the mark of an artist who’s barely tapped into her singularity.
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Aug 14, 2018Decidedly more disco for Mitski, Be the Cowboy is a showdown of electrowave and her signature fretwork that brings a pop pep to heartbreak and humanity’s greatest gluttonies. With that formidable force of a voice, she forces us all to be the cowboy and lament for a while.
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Aug 17, 2018Be The Cowboy is a standout because of its restlessness, Mitski winding each lonely melody through the peripatetic music and always landing someplace unexpectedly moving.
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Aug 15, 2018The album is all the more impressive because her words and music are meticulously calculated, expertly arranged and still filled with feeling.
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UncutAug 13, 2018[The songs] all feel very much of a piece thanks to the coherence fostered by Mitski's high but agile voice and wry, self-deprecating humour. [Sep 2018, p.35]
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Positive: 32 out of 32
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Feb 8, 2019I mean, this album is insane!!! Mitski is a real genius and art pioneer! Never get tired of any track in this album.
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Aug 18, 2018Wonderful album. Synchronic, well elaborated, smooth and shocking. Mitski did a beautiful job on it. His only mistake is to be too short.
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Feb 8, 2020she's a real goddess omg. this album is everything. can't wait for more music from her
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Aug 17, 2018So raw and unpolished yet so sad and meaningful. A really great album. Possibly AOTY
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Aug 17, 2018
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Aug 19, 2018That voice and charisma, utterly charming .
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Jul 26, 2019
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