Album Review: Mitski - Puberty 2

A promising effort from solo New Yorker Mitski Miyawaki, Puberty 2 is replete with off-beat, subtly clever songs.

Mitski deftly tackles issues such as identity on Your Best American Girl, but you may occasionally feel like shouting "first world problems" at some of her bourgeois beefs, as she's the only artist we can think of who complains about happiness. Nonetheless, her individuality and sense of melody threads its way through an impressive breadth of styles, from Neutral Milk Hotel's passionate folk racket to elegiac synth-pop.