Father John Misty Pure Comedy
Father John Misty's Pure Comedy on Vinyl is the highly anticipated follow-up to his internationally acclaimed album, I Love You, Honeybear. Pure Comedy highlights include the title track alongside standouts "Leaving LA," "Total Entertainment Forever," "Ballad of the Dying Man," "When The God Of Love Returns There'll Be Hell To Pay" and "Things It Would Have Been Helpful to Know Before The Revolution." Since 2012, Father John Misty, aka Josh Tillman, has unexpectedly emerged as a singular (if not undeniably, um, idiosyncratic) voice.
Whether by virtue of his lyrics, which routinely defy the presumed polarities of wit and empathy; his live performances which may perhaps be described best as "intimately berzerk", or the infuriating line he seems to occupy between canny and total fraud online or in interviews, Father John Misty has cultivated a rare space for himself in the musical landscape - that of a real enigma. Pure Comedy sees Tillman at the height of these powers: as a lyricist, and equally so a cultural observer - at times bordering on freakishly prescient. Tillman's bent critiques, bared humanity and gently warped classic songwriting are all here in equal measure and - at 75 minutes - there's a veritable fuck ton of it. The album navigates themes of progress, technology, fame, the environment, politics, aging, social media, human nature, human connection and his own role in it all with his usual candour, and in terms as timely as they are timeless. Tillman wrote the majority of Pure Comedy throughout 2015 and recorded all the basic tracking and vocals live to tape (in no more than two takes each) at United Studios (fka the legendary Ocean Way Studios, favored by Frank Sinatra and The Beach Boys) in Los Angeles March 2016. Pure Comedy was co-produced once again by Josh Tillman and long-time producer Jonathan Wilson; mixed by Tillman, Wilson and Trevor Spencer, and mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering Studios. The album features string, horn and choral arrangements from classical iconoclast Gavin Bryars (Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet, Sinking Of The Titanic), with additional contributions from Nico Muhly and Thomas Bartlett.
- Disc 1
- 1Pure Comedy
- 2Total Entertainment Forever
- 3Things It Would Have Been Helpful to Know Before the Revolution
- 4Ballad of the Dying Man
- 5Birdie
- 6Leaving LA
- 7A Bigger Paper Bag
- 8When the God of Love Returns There'll Be Hell to Pay
- 9Smoochie
- 10Two Wildly Different Perspectives
- 11The Memo
- 12So I'm Growing Old On Magic Mountain
- 13In Twenty Years Or So
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