It’s been a long, cold couple of years for Mitski fans, who haven’t had new music from the 31-year-old singer-songwriter to sob along to since the release of her last album Be the Cowboy in 2018. (And believe me, there were some long, lonely pandemic nights when the only available balm was listening to 2016’s Puberty 2 all the way through.) On Tuesday, though, Mitski released a brand-new music video for a single titled “Working for the Knife.” Watch the full music video below:
Mitski has taken a significant break from public life over the last few years, logging off of social media and announcing that she’d be playing her “last show indefinitely” following her 2019 Be The Cowboy tour, but she’s back and better than ever on “Working for the Knife,” which combines her signature mix of lyrical alienation and hope (sample line: “I cry at the start of every movie // I guess ’cause I wish I was making things too”) with a disorienting yet just-right stroll through an empty performance venue in upstate New York.
It feels reductive to call “Working for the Knife” a late-pandemic anthem, but the song and video definitely capture some of the surreality and loneliness that so many of us have felt over the last two years. Luckily for those in North America and Europe, though, Mitski just announced an upcoming tour in the spring of 2022; hopefully, soon enough, we’ll all be able to sway and cry to her music together, just as the indie gods intended.
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