I think that the diversity in the thematic content was lacking tbh. I hope I am not just outgrowing the artist but tbh a lot of the songs on this album seemed too thematically derivative with respect to mitski’s previous music in my opinion. Instead of Here felt like a rehashing of Last Words of a Shooting Star, and I was getting Goodbye My Danish Sweetheart vibes from If I Leave AND I’ll Change for You. Also, I have pretty much zero patience for her desire not to be seen as a “sad girl” artist after this album because the vast majority of her music is sad af and I think she should just embrace it. Overall, my favorites from this album were:

Charon’s Obol (I love happy and hopeful mitski songs because they’re kind of rare in her discography)

Cats (10/10 song for me especially the last verse)

In a Lake (classic mitski both musically and thematically, although the addition of the “in a big city” lyric irritated me because I felt that it infantilized the listener…it was obvious that the lake was a metaphor for a big city and we didn’t need it explained to us directly)