MITSKI 'LAUREL HELL' LP - OPAQUE GOLD Firehose it's the album that began

it's the album that began the band’s rapid ascent to becoming one of the biggest-selling artists of all time

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LIFE OF AGONY A Place Where There's No More Pain - Life Of Agony emerged from the New York music scene in the early '90s with one of the most distinctive sounds in its genre

and the ruined sexuality of it's cover image (a topless flamenco dancer in a crumbling Mexican bar) that set a fresh blueprint for an indie rock dynamism that not only planted the seeds of grunge (Kurt Cobain would admit that he was trying to imitate the record while writing Nevermind) but of much of the best rock music made since

MITSKI 'LAUREL HELL' LP - OPAQUE GOLD Firehose it's the album that beganMITSKI LAUREL HELL OPAQUE GOLD VINYL PRESSING LABEL: DEAD OCEANS STREET DATE: 2 4 22 VARIANT: OPAQUE GOLD VINYL LP We dont typically look to pop albums to answer our cultural moment, let alone to meet the soul hunger left in the wake of global catastrophe. Pop songs are meant to distract us with reductive parables of love and fame, heroism and villainy. But occasionally, an artist proves the form more malleable and capacious than we knew. With Laurel