Mitski releases her eighth studio album, Nothing’s About to Happen to Me, today via Dead Oceans, and the video for album standout ‘If I Leave’ will be premiering at 4pm AEDT today. LISTEN TO THE LP HERE + ‘IF I LEAVE’ VIDEO PREMIERE HERE.

Following ‘I’ll Change For You’, her “bossa nova-infused tune of desperation” (The Needle Drop), Mitskinow presents a tale of conflict and reluctance with ‘If I Leave’. Displaying her “peerless ability to sound refined and overwhelmed all at once”, (Stereogum) she sings: “If I leave // Somebody else will find you // But nobody else could see me // Quite as clearly as you.”

Premiering at 4pm AEDT today, the ‘If I Leave’ video, directed by Jared Hogan, is at once stunning, unsettling, and darkly funny. Set in a house breathing with menace and history, each room carries its own traces of the lives and eerie moments it once contained. Mitski and members of her band perform within these spooky spaces with calm indifference, their straight forward presence grounding us even as the rooms around them bristle with unease. The house is the true character here; Mitski and her music are the throughline tying its eras and horrors together.

Mitski wrote all of the songs and performed all of the vocals on Nothing’s About to Happen to Me. Produced and engineered by Patrick Hyland and mastered by Bob Weston, the album continues the musical through line established with 2023’s The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We, and features live instrumentation by The Land touring band and ensemble arrangements. The orchestra was recorded atSunset Sound and TTG Studios, arranged and conducted by Drew Erickson, engineered by MichaelHarris.

Mitski returned to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert earlier this week to perform ‘I’ll Change For You’, marking her first performance on the show since 2016 and accompanied by her full band, and offering a taste of what to expect on Mitski’s run of global performances kicking off next week. Mitski will presentNothing’s About to Happen to Me in select cities around the world with residencies in select major cities: six nights at The Shed in New York City (plus a separate Tansy House Installation), five nights at Hollywood High School in Los Angeles, and four nights at the Sydney Opera House as part of VividLIVE. Additional stops include Mexico City, Istanbul, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, London, Manila, Bangkok, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, and Singapore. Tickets are now available here with many dates already sold out.

In addition to the Mitski performances, The Shed will be hosting a Tansy House Exhibit from Friday, February 27th throughout the run of shows. The Tansy House Exhibit offers fans a chance to explore the rich visual world of Nothing’s About to Happen to Me with a house outlined in fabric that reveals itself one room at a time. Fans will be invited to step inside an environment where lived-in vignettes and subtle stories unfold. From hints of Victorian charm to subtle kitschy mess tucked into its corners, each space reflects the album’s spiritual home, The Tansy House. More information on the exhibit is available here.