Lush is my favorite album ever. I’m a big fan of Mitski and I really truly relate to. Mitski does poetic songwriting incredibly well. Lush is somehow both raw and beautifully refined. One of my favorite tracks is Bag of Bones. In my perspective, the track dives into sexual relationships and feeling disconnected from them entirely. The idea of having sex and feeling used after. He “illuminates her pores” and “tears her apart” but she has this connection she doesn’t want to break and I just think this is incredibly beautiful and poetic. She also is losing her personality as well. “Do what you came here to do but first open up a window for me” She is so disconnected from this sexual relationship but she stays in it because she can’t leave. Overall Lush, as an album,dives into toxic relationships, toxic gender roles, and toxic emotional baggage. It’s by far my favorite Mitski album and I have nearly every album on vinyl.