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.

NCT 127 is the second sub-unit and Seoul-based unit of the South Korean boy group NCT. The unit debuted on July 7, 2016, with their first extended play ‘NCT #127.’ Their name is a combination of the acronym for Neo Culture Technology and the number 127, which represents the longitudinal coordinate of Seoul. The group consists of nine members, three of whom speak fluent English. 

With millions of social media followers and a fanbase that won’t quit, Seoul-based global powerhouse NCT  127,  has  shaken  up  the  K-Pop world  since  their  2016  arrival  with  mega-hit “Fire Truck” with their unique and conceptually-progressive artistry. They were Billboard’s first   K-Pop act   to   hit   No. 1   on   the   Emerging   Artist Chart, Rolling Stone’s 2018 “K-Pop Artist to Watch,” and declared to be “leading the next generation of K-Pop” by the LA Times. Each with their own playful, charismatic personalities, NCT 127 (which includes several fluent English-speaking members from Korea, China, Canada,  Japan  and  the  U.S.)  has  found  a  unique  way  to  connect  with  their  growing  fanbase  outside  of  their  Seoul  home. Charting above world’s biggest artists including Beyonce, Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez on Billboard’s Social 50, the talented group of multi-lingual artists deliver more of an experience than just a performance every time they hit the stage. Known for mixing genres, NCT 127 combines sounds in pop, R&B, hip-hop and Latin trap.

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