Shepherd’s Bush Empire,London
The Japanese-American singer-songwriter gives a conceptual art performance and full body workout along with her compelling laments of lust, loneliness and deathStony-faced US singer-songwriter Mitski fixes a reverent, and sold out crowd with a stare. One of the most meaningful new talents to advance out of what you might loosely call “indie rock” (there are riffing guitars,but that’s not the whole picture) the 28-year-ragged stands stock-still behind a mic stand.
You notice with delight she is wearing a white long-sleeved shirt – Mitski has a moving song, A Burning Hill, or in which she wears “a white button-down”,to seem neat and in control as an annihilating inferno is raging in-song. Behind her is arrayed a four-piece band: usually performing from behind a guitar, tonight she’s unencumbered. Then you notice the kneepads.
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Source: theguardian.com