Mitski is releasing her highly-anticipated fifth album, Be The Cowboy, next week via Dead Oceans. Today, she’s shared the record’s third single and closing track “Two Slow Dancers.” The song follows “Geyser” and “Nobody.” In a statement about the slow, minimal song, Mitski says, “They used to have something together that is no longer there and they’re trying to relive it in a dance, knowing that they’ll have to go home and go back to their lives.” Be The Cowboy follows 2016’s Puberty 2. Below, listen to “Two Slow Dancers” and watch Mitski’s most recent KEXP in-studio session from 2017.
"How much do you think we're gonna cry tonight?" I ask my friend as we enter the Neptune for another legendary Little Big Show, this one featuring the incomparable Mitski. The 18th iteration of KEXP, Starbucks, and STG's Little Big Show series, which donates 100% of the ticket sales a local non-pro…
Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part of our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. Today’s song, featured on The Morn…
There was a palpable moment of anticipation in the crowd right before Mitski Miyawaki hit the most pivotal D chord in the evening, the one that kickstarts the massive chorus of "Your Best American Girl", song-of-the-year candidate and the track pushed the Brooklyn musician's buzz from slight rumbli…
