The Mitski Discography Rate | winner revealed

What is your favorite Mitski release?

  • Lush

    Votes: 2 6.9%

  • Retired from Sad, New Career in Business

    Votes: 2 6.9%

  • Bury Me at Makeout Creek

    Votes: 5 17.2%

  • Puberty 2

    Votes: 9 31.0%

  • Be the Cowboy

    Votes: 11 37.9%
  • Total voters
    29
finito

finito

Last minute rating is stressful as hell but I really couldn't miss out on the rate of one of my all-time favorite artists!

Averages
Lush: 7.00 (10 x 1)
Retired From Sad, New Career In Business: 7.83 (10 x 1)
Bury Me At Makeout Creek: 9.00 (10 x 5)
Puberty 2: 9.00 (10 x 4)
Be The Cowboy: 7.96 (10 x 3)
Extras: 6.26 (10 x 1)
 
fatyoshi

fatyoshi

With @finito's ballot, I think that's pretty much everyone in. At least nobody else told me they were coming within the past few days so I'm gonna cut this off here.

Give me awhile to finish sorting commentary and to add the last ballot to the sheet and I'll try to have the first elimination out tonight xx

edit: SCREAM, there's been a bit of a guest appearance. Give me a bit to do some shifting, the elimination is still coming.
 
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fatyoshi

fatyoshi

So what will be the first track to leave?






















I'd wait in line
Just to have you once
Then you'll have me once
And I'll never
Be happy again




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#66 - Wait (with Ryan Hemsworth and Keaton Henson)
6.111
High scorers: 8 (@Crisp X, @DinahLee, @Remorque)
Low scorers: 4 (@Phonetics Girl, @LE0Night, @ohnostalgia), 4.5 (@Serg.)
fatyoshi's score: 6

Leaderboard trajectory:
5 voters - #64
10 voters - #66 (-2)
]Final placement - #66 (=)

Surprising probably no one or very few, Wait is our first track to bow out. The extras were always gonna have a rough go of it but seeing as this one didn't even see any scores above an 8, it seems that nobody felt really passionate about it either way.

While this track released in 2016 (as part of the Adult Swim Singles Series), Mitski and Ryan had been no strangers to collaboration and interaction before this point. In 2015, Ryan released a remix of Francis Forever and the two were featured in a discussion of the year's Songs of the Summer with Stereogum. Keeping this in mind, it makes sense that it was the first collaboration in Mitski's solo discography.

The song itself is definitely along the lines of typical Ryan Hemsworth fare, just with guest vocals obviously dddd. The icy synths, heavy reverb use, and subdued vocals are all elements I recall from my time spent with his material. As far as the composition/development of the song goes, I wasn't able to find a ton of information for this one while doing some reading around in the prep/run up to the rate. All I've got was that Ryan had been working on ideas with Keaton Henson before Mitski became involved. If any of those ideas made it into the song or how much they shifted, I'm not 100% sure. Sorry.

I'm not terribly upset with this being the first to go. It's not a TERRIBLE song and I have one or two lower scores somewhere in the list but it's not essential Mitski material regardless. I do recall enjoying some of Ryan's other work more when I listening in the past so maybe give it a go sometime.

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Shifting gears a bitsy, we have one piece of commentary for this track.

@constantino who gave the track a 7 serves a questionable comparison with "Not Ryan Hemsworth sounding like Perfume Genius." It's a bit early into the rate for mess so I'm gonna let this one slide xx

...and that's about it for this one. Some of these eliminations will be more or less thorough than others as a result of what I have to work with in terms of information and content or even just how I'm feeling that day. The extras are gonna end up being on the lighter end but I'll do my best. I'll finish this post with two more tracks from Ryan in addition to the (much better) track that this one's title makes me think of.






I'll see y'all tomorrow for the next elimination.

Are you happy with this being out?
What do you want to go next?


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Remorque

Remorque

He/Him
Not gonna lie, I upped my score with one point because I was afraid this was going to go first. Alas, to no avail...
I actually really like the ambiance it sets and their voices go wonderfully well together to my ears.

Is it the best extra? No.
Is it the worst one? Neaux.

I've definitely delved a little deeper into his discography, so you certainly did that, @Crisp X.
 
fatyoshi

fatyoshi

Good afternoon.



















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#65 - Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair (Voice Coils)
6.286

High scores: 9.4 (@pop3blow2), 9 (@Crisp X, @Serg.)
Low scores: 3 (@constantino) 4 (insolentire, @Euphoria, @LE0Night)
fatyoshi's score: 5

Leaderboard trajectory:
5 voters - #65
10 voters - #65 (=)
Final placement - #65 (=)

We lose our first Voice Coils track with Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair at number 65. As with the last elimination, I'm not sure anybody is too surprised.

Formed in 2013, Voice Coils was a progressive rock band (with tons of other influences and elements to their sound obviously ddddd) that featured Mitski as the lead vocalist. It was a mostly short lived project that released two singles (the one single had two tracks that weren't in the rate list) and an EP before breaking up or at the very least going inactive in 2015 as Mitski left to focus on her then picking up solo career.

Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair is the final track on the above mentioned EP and also a rendition of a traditional folk song that has seen many iterations over the years (perhaps most famously or relevant to PJ with Nina Simone's or Lauryn Hill's versions). Voice Coils' version features a lush instrumental that eventually gives way as Mitski's vocals swell in a fashion not too far from some of her other work. If I had to choose I'd say this is the closest any of the Voice Coils tracks got to what Mitski would do with her own material.

Not so much surprised by the dismal leaderboard placement but I am a bit shocked this was the first Voice Coils track to go. I figured the mixture of it being a bit less out there than something like An Atrium and it not feeling too out of character in sound for Mitski's discography at large would guarantee a higher placement among the EPs section. It wasn't meant to be, I guess.

This elimination is a bit thin but please bare with me. There's not a ton of info on Voice Coils around and I have 3 more of these to write yet. Gotta save some stuff for whenever the other tracks leave. Nobody gave any commentary for this track so I'll leave us with the two other renditions of the song that I mentioned before.




I'll be back tomorrow with our next elimination xx​
 
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pop3blow2

pop3blow2

I hadn't heard any of the Voice Coils stuff before this rate, but I really loved it. That sound is up my alley. I will actually probably buy it. I really enjoyed their take 'Black Is The Color...' as shown by my 9.4, but I still have a 10 in that lot of songs, to come.
 
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