The Japanese-American songwriter, vocalist and musician Mitski Miyawaki self-released her first two albums while a student at the Purchase College (part of the State University of New York system) Conservatory of Music. She signed to a label for her third album, and soon began attracting critical acclaim. That acclaim has continued right up to her latest full-length, Be The Cowboy. The carefully crafted songs on the new record were all written by Mitski, and performed almost entirely by the artist and her producer. Mitski explains the album's title: "There was this artist I really loved who used to have such a cowboy swagger....With a lot of the romantic infatuations I've had, when I look back, I wonder, did I want them or did I want to be them? Did I love them or did I want to absorb whatever power they had? I decided I could just be my own cowboy."
Here are the Top 30 new album releases played on Studio One Tracks for the week ending Sept. 9, 2018:
1 Death Cab For Cutie- Thank You For Today
2 Rubblebucket- Sun Machine
3 Mitski- Be The Cowboy
4 Oh Sees- Smote Reverser
5 Wild Nothing- Indigo
6 Ty Segall & White Fence- Joy
7 DeVotchKa- The Night Falls Forever
8 Iron & Wine- Weed Garden (EP)
9 Gringo Star- Back To The City
10 Shannon Shaw- Shannon In Nashville
11 The Smithereens- Covers
12 White Denim- Performance
13 Dirty Projectors- Lamp Lit Prose
14 Lucero- Among The Ghosts
15 Mass Gothic- I've Tortured You Long Enough
16 Melody's Echo Chamber- Bon Voyage
17 Jim James- Uniform Distortion
18 Kevin Gordon- Tilt And Shine
19 Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever- Hope Downs
20 The Kooks- Let's Go Sunshine
21 Circles Around The Sun- Let It Wander
22 Free Cake For Every Creature- The Bluest Star
23 Hana Vu- How Many Times Have You Driven By (EP)
24 Nothing- Dance On The Blacktop
25 Neko Case- Hell-On
26 Flasher- Constant Image
27 The Beths- Future Me Hates Me
28 Still Corners- Slow Air
29 Phantastic Ferniture- Phantastic Ferniture
30 Underworld & Iggy Pop- Teatime Dub Encounters (EP)