Photo by Ebru Yildiz

At this stage, we need not Mitski to astound us with grand gestures of festival-sized art pop ambition to win our love. She has been to that mountain, and her humble finesse in songwriting will do as much gazing wonder. With “Heaven”, one of two new highlights from her forthcoming album, The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We, the fault is in her stars in this simple swoon of country balladeering that compliments match the album’s very American motif. Adorned in twanging guitars and a twilight waltz, simple elegance comes easy even when love’s radical nature makes a mess out of you. “Now I bend like a willow / Thinkin’ of you / Like a murmurin’ brook / Curvin’ about you,” she sings. “As I sip on the rest of the coffee you left / A kiss left of you.” Its taste is bitter but sweet, but not yet cold.

Mitski’s The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We will be released September 15th on Dead Oceans.