Mitski has announced her eighth studio album, Nothing’s About to Happen to Me, arriving February 27th via Dead Oceans, and shared its lead single and video, the fuzzed-out rock spiral “Where’s My Phone?” The new project continues the creative through line she established on 2023’s The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We, while pushing deeper into narrative-driven territory.
Supported by a live band and orchestra, Nothing’s About to Happen to Me centers on a reclusive woman living in an unkempt house — a character who exists as a deviant beyond its walls but finds freedom within them. Mitski wrote all of the album’s songs and performed all of its vocals, working once again with longtime collaborator Patrick Hyland, who produced and engineered the record. The album was mastered by Bob Weston, with orchestral arrangements by Drew Erickson recorded at Sunset Sound and TTG Studios.
“Where’s My Phone?” offers an anxious, distorted entry point into the album’s emotional terrain. Built around a looping refrain — “Where did it go // Where’s my phone // Where’d I go” — the song captures a spiraling sense of displacement, pairing raw urgency with a jagged melodic edge. The track arrives alongside an unhinged, darkly playful video directed by Noel Paul, inspired by Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle. In the clip, Mitski plays a paranoid woman defending her sister inside a gothic house as a procession of increasingly absurd intruders sends the story into chaos.
The album features live instrumentation from The Land touring band alongside expanded ensemble arrangements, further blurring the line between intimacy and grandeur. Across its eleven tracks — including “In a Lake,” “Dead Women,” and “Charon’s Obol” — Mitski continues her career-long exploration of isolation, desire, and interior life, now rendered with orchestral weight and theatrical precision.
The announcement arrives amid an already expansive creative era for Mitski. In recent years, she’s seen global success with “My Love Mine All Mine,” collaborated with Florence and the Machine, David Byrne, and Son Lux, and debuted her concert film Mitski: The Land in more than 600 cinemas worldwide. With Nothing’s About to Happen to Me, she appears less interested in escalation than excavation — turning inward to find something stranger, darker, and quietly defiant waiting inside. Pre-order and Pre-Save Nothing’s About to Happen to Me right here.
