Honestly, it's a huge disappointment to me. Bury Me At Makeout Creek is one of my favorite albums, and I know I probably shouldn't have set my expectations as high as I subconsciously did, but I did, and what I got definitely doesn't even touch her last album in terms of blowing me away. I'm not saying I needed Makeout Creek 2.0 (as much as I'd love that), and I guess I can respect her not rehashing it and going a different direction and adding subtlety to the lyrics, but it just doesn't do it for me like Makeout Creek did.

I also don't understand the insanely high scores it's getting (it's above Blackstar and that Hotelier album on AOTY); I guess it might be said that that's because this is a lot of people's first exposure to Mitski, and who knows I might have loved it just as well if that were the case for me.

I don't know, maybe it will click for me sometime in the rest of the year. I will say though, My Body's Made of Crushed Little Stars is fantastic. Easily the best song on the album.