Lorde has announced openers for her upcoming world tour, and while Run the Jewels (which just played Jannus Live in January) is set to play the Tampa date, we are more than thrilled to see one of DIY’s best and brightest stars — Mitski — on the bill for April 11.
In our 2016 album of the year rundown, we called the 27-year-old Japanese songwriter a mistress of melancholy who has established herself as one of the single most important voices in DIY today. The cold, wiry electro-drum beats that skittered all over Puberty 2 made the album’s super-sad slow jams something that we could maybe dance to (“But then again, why groove when you can bawl?,” asked our correspondent).
One more opener is yet to be announced. Listen to Puberty 2 below and get more information on the show via local.cltampa.com.
This article appears in Sep 28 – Oct 6, 2017.
