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.

watch my new music video for my single "Rogue Star ft Laventia"
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Hey what's up everybody! My name is Nicholas Hartkop and I am the founder and front person in McCafferty. 

McCafferty is an acoustic punk band that originated in Cleveland Ohio in 2010. It is made up of myself, my wife Emily, Wesley easterly on drums, and Evan Graham on electric guitar. 
I am a licensed in special education K-12 as well as a licensed real estate professional, and my wife is a professor at North Carolina State University, but music will always be our calling. 
McCafferty currently has around 500,000 listeners monthly between all digital streaming platforms, and we are so blessed and grateful to be growing everyday. 

I grew up listening to Blink 182 religiously, and its always been my dream to make a band that could impact others the way they did me. 
I hope you like what you hear and please never hesitate to reach out. 
Making friends and memories is why we do this. 
Thank you all for how much you have changed our lives.
-The McCafferty Family 

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7s3OoIocX1gTOnEvCg2VV8?si=5Or0YHC_QRuoB3amhVydVw

Instagram: Nickhartkop_mccaffertyband

Website: mccaffertyband.com

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