Summary
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Featured performers:
• Mitski: vocals
• Patrick Hyland: electric, acoustic guitars
• Bruno Esrubilsky: drums
• Jeni Magaña: bass, backing vocals
• Emily Moore: guitarist, keys, backing vocals
• Ty Bailie: keys
Thanks to the production team at Power Station: Neal Shaw, Omisha Chaitanya, Grace Leckey and Ben Miller.
This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Kimberly Junod. Our digital producer is Miguel Perez. World Cafe's engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and booking coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. It's Robin Hilton from All Songs Considered with something special for your weekend. |
| 0:05.3 | It's an interview with Mitzki, with the singer Mitzky. |
| 0:09.2 | Mitzki just put out one of the year's best albums, I think, so far. It's called Nothing's About to Happen to Me. |
| 0:14.9 | You might have heard us talk about it on a recent episode of New Music Friday with World Cafe host Raina Duras. |
| 0:22.1 | World Cafe, the podcast, the radio show, has tons of live performances and interviews |
| 0:28.7 | every month, including recent ones with Rat Boys, Sam Beam of Iron and Wine, and this one |
| 0:35.9 | that we're sharing here with Mitzky. Raina spoke with Mitzky |
| 0:39.8 | at the power station in New York City, where they talked about the new album, about the pressures |
| 0:46.2 | Mitzki felt while making the record, and some of the unintentional left turns she took while |
| 0:52.3 | recording it. Mitzky also performed four songs live for this |
| 0:57.4 | episode, and that's where we're going to start. We begin with a live performance of the song, |
| 1:02.4 | Where's My Phone? Again from the album, Nothing's About to Happen to Me. And if you want to know more about |
| 1:08.0 | World Cafe, we've got a link you can check out in the notes for this episode in your feed. Where's my phone? Where did I leave? |
| 1:32.3 | Where'd I go? Where'd I go? |
| 1:39.3 | A woman always on the street |
| 1:45.6 | Call me a ditch |
| 1:47.0 | A ditch on my block, she said |
| 1:50.0 | I just want my mind to be a clear glass |
| 1:54.0 | Clear glass with nothing in my head |
| 1:57.0 | I'd be thinking Surely somebody will save me |
| 2:01.5 | At every turn I learn that no one will |
| 2:04.6 | I just want my mind to be a free grass |
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