Mitski announces new LP Puberty 2, shares "Your Best American Girl"
01 March 2016, 14:28
| Written by
Laurence Day
Mitski has announced fourth album Puberty 2, and shared its lead single "Your Best American Girl".
The track is discusses being “half Japanese, half American but not fully either." Mitski adds: “I wanted to use those white-American-guy stereotypes as a Japanese girl who can't fit in, who can never be an 'American girl'.”
The album was recorded with frequent collaborator Patrick Hyland.
Puberty 2 is out 17 June via Dead Oceans. It follows 2014's Bury Me At Makeout Creek.
Read Tall Girl, our longread interview with Mitski.
Stream "Your Best American Girl" below.
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