Tracklist
Bug Like An Angel	3:32
Buffalo Replaced	2:40
Heaven	3:44
I Don’t Like My Mind	2:25
The Deal	3:52
When Memories Snow	1:44
My Love Mine All Mine	2:18
The Frost	2:48
Star	2:59
I’m Your Man	3:30
I Love Me After You	2:49

Love Songs Written After the Fire

The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We is Mitski’s most austere and devotional record. It’s a sparse, windswept album built on choir-like harmonies, slow-smoldering instrumentation, and lyrics that read like confessions written after the fever breaks.

Where earlier records bent around pop tension and self-laceration, this one retreats into mythic distance and emotional after-light, trading volatility for resignation and a kind of bleak mercy.

The album plays like a letter written from exile, resigned to the truth that even love carries ruin and that the world will not yield just because we wish it to.

A Slow-Burn Classic

The album was received as a late-career crystallization rather than an experiment. Critics framed it as Mitski’s most compositionally controlled and thematically clarified work since Be the Cowboy. Its restraint was widely praised as deliberate rather than diminished, with reviewers highlighting the choir arrangements and liturgical tone as a breakthrough in atmosphere.

Among listeners the record landed as a “slow burn classic,” circulating not as a hype cycle artifact but as one people return to when they need a clean emotional cut without theatrics. It has begun to consolidate her status not only as a cult favorite but as one of the defining narrative songwriters of her era.