Mitski "Puberty 2" COLOR:WHITE Look to the East

Look to the East

and plenty of points in between

the 11th album from Colorado band Big Head Todd and the Monsters

with their snarling boom-chicka-boom guitars and an Old 97's swing in the rhythm section

the band has combined a handful of recent singles alongside all-new recordings helmed by Paul Roessler at Kitten Robot Studio

Mitski "Puberty 2" COLOR:WHITE Look to the EastAsk Mitski Miyawaki about happiness and she'll warn you: "Happiness fucks you." It's a lesson that's been writ large into the New Yorker's gritty, outsider indie for years, but never so powerfully as on her newest album, 'Puberty 2'. "Happiness is up, sadness is down, but one's almost more destructive than the other," she says. "When you realise you can't have one without the other, it's possible to spend periods of happiness just waiting for that