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“Some songs I write quickly without really thinking at all—and this is one of them,” says Bay Area psych popsmith Luke Sweeney. “There’s no right-brain interference between my stream of consciousness and the page.”

About as unfiltered as it gets, “The Mercy Mile” was written in a single night by lamplight, with passing trains as the only distraction. It’s the latest single from Novel Tea, Sweeney’s fifth full-length, available Friday via Yours Unruly Unlimited. With roots in San Francisco’s garage-rock scene of the 2010s, Sweeney earned high marks for 2022’s Rishi, funneling his grief over the loss of a baby daughter into a mesmerizing panacea of synth washes, jazzy textures and Eastern influences acquired during his travels in India. “The Mercy Mile” leans more toward the nimble, warmly nostalgic ’70s-inspired craftsmanship of previous releases.

“It contains images, observations and feelings from two lives—my dream life and my waking life,” says Sweeney. “They intertwine in a ghost-like dance that hopefully leaves the room with a new light and a little bit of inspiration to live unedited: raw, emotional, honest and free.”

—Hobart Rowland, MAGNET Magazine

Novel Tea

The Mercy Mile

Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl

Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl (From "I Saw the TV Glow")

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i’m going to fucking jump
i’m going to fill my lungs
i’m going to fucking yell
i’m going to have fun
way out in the sun and
i’m going to love myself
well if you want my blood
i’ll make so much blood
that you’re gonna fucking drown
i’ll always roll along
i’ve always been strong
getting stronger than myself

it feels like i’m under water
not content to do whatever
i hate every little choice I’ve made so
I’ve got no choice but to keep moving forwards
i hope one day life will be better
climb a ladder made of my sweat and
blood but the blood eater hungers
everything just keeps getting harder

Mom - Bloodeater

Puberty 2

Crack Baby

Bury Me At Makeout Creek

Francis Forever

RACE

Alex G- Race

Be the Cowboy

Me and My Husband

Nobody

Strawberry Blond - Mitski

Papa Cremp

Teenage Girl

Brand New City - Mitski

Liquid Smooth - Mitski

The Horror and the Wild

Farewell Wanderlust

I Just Wanna Make The Whole Earth Smile

Sometimes, Mitski feels life would be easier without hope, or a soul, or love. But when she closes her eyes and thinks about what’s truly hers, what can’t be repossessed or demolished, she sees love. “The best thing I ever did in my life was to love people,” she says. “I wish I could leave behind all the love I have after I die, so I can shine all this goodness, all this good love that I’ve created onto other people.” She hopes her newest album, The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We, will shine love long after she’s gone. That’s precisely how it feels: like a love that’s haunting the land.

“This is my most American album,” she says. The music feels like a profound act of witnessing this country, in all of its private sorrows and painful contradictions. Sonically Mitski’s most epic and wise album, the songs introduce wounds and then actively heal them. Here, love is time-traveling to bless our tender days, like light from a distant star.

It's full of the ache of the grown-up, seemingly mundane heartbreaks and joys that are often unsung but feel enormous. It’s a tiny epic. From the bottom of a glass, to a driveway slushy with memory and snow, to a freight train barreling through the Midwest, and all the way to the moon, it feels like everything and everyone is crying out in pain, arching towards love. Love is that inhospitable land, beckoning and then rejecting us. To love this place, this earth, this America, this body takes work. It might be impossible. The best things are.

Soberness is over-rated.
Local garbage X3

Francis Forever

Mitski

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