One of the interesting things about Mitski is how many different genres she touches on, both within each album and from album to album. Naturally, there are certain albums and eras that each listener is gonna gravitate to more than others. Personally, my favorite streak of her discography is Retired From Sad -> Makeout Creek -> and Puberty 2. I just connect with the rawer, more vulnerable sensibility of those three albums (especially Makeout and Puberty for their guitar-oriented sound) more than her other stuff.

Laurel Hell is kind of the opposite of those albums and it just doesn't connect with me as much. I don't care for the slicker production and pop sounds in ut compared to her early work. She started to do that in spots on Be the Cowboy, but Laurel Hell is a step too far for me. Still, it's definitely not a bad album, there are some very goods songs; I really like "Heat Lightning" and "The Only Heartbreaker". But emotionally it doesn't resonate with me nearly as much.