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Earlier this spring, Mac DeMarco found himself at the center of an uncharacteristically heated online debate. He’d just announced his fourth studio album,Here Comes the Cowboy, and released its lead single, “Nobody” —setting off alarm bells for some fans of Mitski, another acclaimed singer-songwriter who released a great album calledBe …

Mitski‘s Be the Cowboy is full of little hooks and big ones, tumbling around and catching hold as the songs speed past. A perfect example is “Washing Machine Heart.” It’s two minutes long, but it has at least three distinct musical ideas within it. First there’s the percussive, almost industrial …