Mitski is bringing her Laurel Hell tour to the 3Olympia Theatre

Japanese-American singer songwriter Mitski has announced a Dublin date at 3Olympia Theatre on 13th June 2022.

Mitski’s critically beloved last album, Be the Cowboy, built on the breakout acclaim of 2016’s Puberty 2, which launched her from cult favourite to indie star.

She wrote many of the songs on her new album Laurel Hell in 2018, while the album finished mixing in May 2021. It's the longest span of time Mitski has ever spent on a record, and a process that concluded amid a radically changed world.

"Mitski is absolutely fine being a cult artist, it would seem. Laurel Hell invites her fans to consider whether that’s something they might be okay with too," Hot Press' Ed Power wrote of the LP. "The question her sixth album poses is whether fame is something to be embraced or feared. And it is that tumult of emotions – ambivalence is the prevailing mood – that makes Laurel Hell so striking. As a rummage through the hopes, fears and insecurities of a musician on the cusp of the big time, it’s fascinating."

The musician recorded Laurel Hell with her longtime producer Patrick Hyland throughout the isolation of a global pandemic, during which some of the songs “slowly took on new forms and meanings, like seed to flower.”

The album as a whole evolved “to be more uptempo and dance-y. I needed to create something that was also a pep talk,” Mitski explains. “Like, it's time, we're going to dance through this.”

“I used to think I’d be done by 20,” she sings in 'Working for the Knife,' “though maybe at 30 I’ll see a way to change.”

Sometimes it’s hard to see the change when you’re the agent of it, but for the lucky rest of us, Mitski has written a soundtrack for transformation, a map to the place where vulnerability and resilience, sorrow and delight, error and transcendence can all sit within our humanity, can all be seen as worthy of acknowledgment, and ultimately, love.

“I accept it all,” she promises. “I forgive it all.” She also joins Harry Styles on tour this summer.

Tickets from €34.90 including booking fee go on sale this Friday at 10am.