On 2023’s The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We, she remade herself in the unlikely guise of an after-hours dive-bar siren, singing gorgeously torch-y songs about buffalo, insects, and the apocalypse against a phalanx of pedal steel guitar licks and “Lay Lady Lay”-style moseyin’-pony rhythms. And she revives that sound on Nothing’s About To Happen To Me, with occasional callbacks to “Indie Rock Mitski” (the rollicking single “Where’s My Phone?”), the period that marked her original flush of prominence that now feels like a transitional period on the way to her current status as The Queen Of Music Cool Middle-Schoolers Love.