“Geyser” by Mitski

"Geyser" was the first taste of Be the Cowboy, Mitski's fifth studio album, going out as its lead single in 2018, and it was also the first song she wrote for the record, though "wrote" hardly covers it. She started it back in college and kept pulling it apart and rebuilding it through version after version, calling it her white whale, the one she could never get right, until she accepted she would never be satisfied and simply finished it.

By her own account it's one of her vaguest songs: where she usually tells a story of some kind, this one runs purely on feeling. The credits bring in a horn section of Thor Espanez, Ian Gray, Philly Phatness and Vincent Tampio, and she took the song to The Daily Show that September.

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