Mitski Miyawaki is a Japanese-born American
singer-songwriter. Mitski self-released her first two albums, Lush
(2012) and Retired from Sad, New Career in Business (2013), while
studying studio composition at Purchase College's Conservatory of Music.
These albums were created originally as her senior project at Purchase.
She released her third studio album, Bury Me at Makeout Creek, in 2014
through Double Double Whammy after graduating. She then signed with Dead
Oceans in 2015 and released her critically acclaimed albums Puberty 2
(2016), Be the Cowboy (2018) and Laurel Hell (2022), the last
of which entered the top ten in several territories. The Guardian dubbed
her the "best young songwriter" in the United States.