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Nothing's About to Happen to Me

Mitski

Nothing's About to Happen to Me

Eighth album from the New York-based Japanese/American synth-pop singer songwriter produced by Patrick Hyland

ADM rating[?]

8.4

Label
Dead Oceans
UK Release date
27/02/2026
US Release date
27/02/2026
  1. 10.0 |   The Guardian

    Whether retreating from fame or heartbreak, the US musician writes gorgeous songs about the appeal of disconnection, flecked with horror and humour
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  2. 10.0 |   Northern Transmissions

    Nothing’s About to Happen to Me, much like the house our narrator lives in, has many rooms to explore. It echoes with voices that beckon you to return for another listen. Mitski has always been an artist. This album is another sharp reminder of that
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  3. 10.0 |   NME

    The indie darling-turned-pop favourite is deliciously wry as she confronts the weight of viral stardom and success on LP eight
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  4. 10.0 |   The Skinny

    Mitski weaves together anxious, wiry guitar and melancholic strings into sublime orchestral pop bruised by loneliness
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  5. 9.5 |   Hot Press

    There are few artists so consistent, yet so explorative. With Nothing’s About To Happen To Me, Mitski cements her position among the best of artists her generation
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  6. 9.0 |   musicOMH

    Her eighth album is one that only she could make: strange, otherworldly and yet immediately accessible and addictive
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  7. 9.0 |   Clash

    A frenzied orchestral soundtrack for her gradual unravelling
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  8. 9.0 |   All Music

    Full of dark, dark humor and produced by her longtime collaborator Patrick Hyland, Nothing's About to Happen to Me may be the Mitski-est Mitski album yet, despite its character-driven nature and partly because, at least on some level, it captures the anxiety of the Zeitgeist of its time
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  9. 9.0 |   PopMatters

    On her eighth album, Nothing’s About to Happen to Me, singer-songwriter Mitski employs a country-folk sound to reflect the peace found in isolation
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  10. 8.5 |   Under The Radar

    Mitski’s stately and artful lyrics cut as deep as ever, but her art pop tragedies have rarely felt this consciously curious. The album is a cluttered manor house full of secrets and peculiarities simply waiting to be opened
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  11. 8.3 |   Consequence Of Sound

    It’s a terrific work, thematically rich and containing some of the most precise and emotionally devastating songwriting of her career
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  12. 8.1 |   Spectrum Culture

    Nothing’s About to Happen to Me presents a multifaceted Mitski, one that feels less monochromatic than she has on previous releases, but one can’t help but wonder if this album is her purposefully fractured response to sudden fame
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  13. 8.0 |   The Quietus

    Mitski has a powerful voice, but the way she reins it in on Nothing’s About to Happen to Me creates some of the most affecting moments
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  14. 8.0 |   Beats Per Minute

    In a cultural moment obsessed with constant transformation, Nothing’s About to Happen to Me quietly insists that perfection, once reached, is worth inhabiting, even if it means circling the same aesthetics again and again
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  15. 8.0 |   Exclaim

    No longer lingering on the edges of the album, she steps into her art as presently as she can, trusting that it will continue to speak for her long after she's gone
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  16. 8.0 |   No Ripcord

    That Nothing’s About to Happen to Me feels both self-contained and expansive speaks to how Mitski moves to her own rhythm. When she expresses every desire to pare things down, the music ends up sounding more vital and complex. The more she pushes her art, the more her audience continues to grow
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  17. 8.0 |   The Arts Desk

    Mitski produces numerous thought-provoking lines, seamlessly blended again with rich tapestries of sound
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  18. 8.0 |   Mojo

    More compelling psychodramas from the art-school Taylor Swift
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  19. 8.0 |   Far Out

    A gorgeous descent into isolation
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  20. 8.0 |   DIY

    By balancing the mastery of her nostalgic sound with universally relatable lyrics, she turns the unlikely into generational truths
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  21. 7.7 |   Pitchfork

    Mitski’s homebound eighth album is both theatrical and restrained, responding to her newfound visibility with sober reflections on loneliness and delusion
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  22. 7.5 |   Paste Magazine

    Conceptually rich and sonically gorgeous record about retreat and self-surveillance, beautiful in its restraint even when you wish it would let the floorboards give way
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  23. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Singer-songwriter’s eighth album, Nothing’s About to Happen to Me, is about a lonely woman looking for freedom
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  24. 7.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    When you’re consistently serving up brilliantly written songs that sound great and are performed with panache, that’s not a formula, that’s just being very good at your job
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