Mitski "Puberty 2" COLOR:WHITE The noir quality

The noir quality

They toured that release relentlessly and added guitarist Maxine Steen to the band's official lineup

Joshua Homme's band of gypsies return with their fifth full-length release from the seminal desert rockers and they are out for blood with guitars slung low

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Mitski "Puberty 2" COLOR:WHITE The noir qualityAsk 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