Me and My Husband

To put Mitski into words is to befriend frustration. Despite typifying the “sad girl” genre, her music ventures beyond simple dolor. Her lyrics are jewels of precision and candor, rotating emotions under a glass eye and catching their nuances under the light.

Mitski’s show Saturday night at The Warfield in San Francisco was a perfect reflection of her musical ethos — her unabashed refusal to hide her personality while performing made for an intimate yet distant experience that mesmerized her die-hard audience.