Mitski Announces New Album, ‘Nothingʼs About to Happen to Me,’ Out in February

Mitski has announced her eighth studio album, “Nothing’s About to Happen to Me,” will be out Feb. 27 via Dead Oceans. It is led by the single “Where’s My Phone?” and a video directed by Noel Paul and based on Shirley Jacksonʼs novel, “We Have Always Lived in the Castle.”

According to the announcement, the album “finds Mitski immersing herself in a rich narrative whose main character is a reclusive woman in an unkempt house. Outside of her home, she is a deviant; inside of her home, she is free.”

Mitski wrote all of the songs and performed all of the vocals on the album, which was produced and engineered by Patrick Hyland and mastered by Bob Weston.

The announcement also states that “the album continues the musical through line established with 2023ʼs ‘The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We,’” and features live instrumentation by the Land touring band and ensemble arrangements.

The tour behind that album was released as a feature-length concert film. Variety’s Chris Willman wrote of the concert, “Her run of three shows at L.A.’s Shine Auditorium was the kind of unexpected, advanced study in movement that couldn’t possibly be guessed just from listening to her records — the latest and best of which was last year’s pretty heady ‘The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We.’

“Just to be clear, invoking choreography here doesn’t mean Mitski brought along a herd of backup hoofers, which would be unbecoming for an erstwhile indie-rocker, if de rigueur for the pop stars she may also be reasonably rated against now. The dancing is hers, all hers, as she singer spends her full 90 minutes on stage striking poses and being moved by the music in programmatic but viscerally engaging ways. You could say she’s got a healthy amount of David Byrne in her, almost irrespective of the fact that the two of them collaborated and shared a best song Oscar nomination last year. Like Byrne, she can be a slippery person, but she’s on terra firma when it comes to rooting her live presentation in dance.”

Incidentally, Byrne and Mitski’s collaboration “This Is a Life,” from the film “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” was nominated for an Oscar in 2022.

Nothingʼs About to Happen to Me Tracklist

1.   In a Lake 

2.   Where’s My Phone?

3.   Cats

4.   If I Leave 

5.   Dead Women 

6.   Instead of Here 

7.   I’ll Change for You 

8.   Rules

9.   That White Cat 

10. Charon’s Obol

11. Lightning