The Father John Misty Thread

this is the thread where you get everything you ever wanted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIFrG_6fySg

hyped for this album

I like this guy's music.

saw this guy play live last year and he played a bunch of new material and it was fantastic.

was there a laugh track though

hey folks this album did that thing faucets aren't supposed to do under optimal conditions

Stayed cold for a long time then eventually got lukewarm?

the pipes froze?

RIP to my terrible joke

in any case, this album's real fuckin good

I found her naked with her best friend in the tub
We sang Silent Night in three parts, which was fun
Until she said that she sounds just like Sarah Vaughan
I hate that soulful affectation white girls put on
Why don’t you move to the Delta?

hmmm - the leak i downloaded has some live tracks on it. not sure if it's legit or what the deal is.

i got one with 11 tracks all of which sound pure studio - maybe you found some deluxe ed.?

i think what i found is the opposite of deluxe.

when does this come out?

xp weird

i believe feb. 18 is the announced release date - it's kind of nuts how early this leak is

I found her naked with her best friend in the tub
We sang Silent Night in three parts, which was fun
Until she said that she sounds just like Sarah Vaughan
I hate that soulful affectation white girls put on
Why don’t you move to the DeltaNewark, New Jersey?

― Simon H., Tuesday, January 13, 2015 9:00 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The album comes with a bonus cassette at Norman Records (and, presumably, some other places):

https://www.normanrecords.com/records/151380-father-john-misty-i-love-you-honeybear-

is he the new john grant!?

don't hate FJM but would rather have a new Fleet Foxes record, come out of the shadows Robin Pecknold

holy cats, this is his tenth album! man, i'd never even heard of him until half an hour ago...

is there anything to distinguish this dude from the typical fleet fox bon iver folky songy niceties?

wait i don't really know what "nicety" means. i just mean all those nice and pleasant-sounding artists who are ultimately quite safe and a little boring?

ha!

yes. he is a little different.

xxxp its mostly in his lyrics, which are often hysterical and/or vicious

he has a stage presence/persona that is way more outwardly engaging and fun/funny

xxxpost to scott: his late-2000s stuff as J. Tillman is mostly super hushed, sad, folky stuff, and it is absolutely beautiful, particularly 2009's "Year in the Kingdom" ... but it is quite different from FJM.

this song/video is representative/wonderful: http://youtu.be/OVPet3TWwHw

his discussion on wtf about his previous work as j. tillman is pretty interesting and funny.

admittedly there are a million people doing what he was doign as J. Tillman, and FJM is a good break from that

right. he basically was a fleet foxes/ bon iver type before (based on the 1 or 2 songs I could stand before turning it off) and FJM is really nothing like that.

lyrics for Ideal Husband:

Julian
He's gonna take my files

Every woman that I've slept with
Every friendship I've neglected
Didn't call when grandma died
I spend my money getting drunk and high
I've done things unprotected
Proceeded to drive home wasted
Bought things to win over siblings
I've said awful things, such awful things

And now
Now it's out
And now
Now it's out

Julian
He's gonna take my files

Telling people jokes to shut them up
Resenting people that I love
Sleep in 'til two then doin' shit
Just stay in bed and later lie 'bout it
Obsessing over greying hair
Knowing just what people wanna hear
Binging on unearned attention
I've said awful things, such awful things

And now
Now it's out
And now
Now it's out

I came by at seven in the morning
Seven in the morning, seven in the morning
I came by at seven in the morning
I said, "Baby, I'm finally succumbing"
Said something dumb like "I'm tired of running
Tired of running, tired of running"
Let's put a baby in the oven
Wouldn't I make the ideal husband?

his lyrics can be outwardly funny in a slap stick kind of way – but they can also be really funny/engaging in a way I’ve never heard before (like they lyrics I just posted).

xp and that's honestly at the like, softer end of his sardonic side. "the night josh tillman came to our apartment" from the new album is on a "like a rolling stone" level of bitterness

that letterman song did remind me of john grant. which isn't a bad thing really. i don't really know fleet foxes at all but wiki says he was just drumming for them anyway.

and then he drops a song that is just plain beautiful like I Went To The Store One Day.

i also just heard abt this guy
but the letterman performance was great, i like the theatrical aspect of it

listening to his 2012 album

sometimes he reminds me of Nilsson a bit, he's more explicitly bitter and stuff but the same sort of sense of dread and angst bubbling up in these little perfect studio pop productions

i dig the novelty of an indie guy trying to Say Something but the lyrics to "bored in the usa" get so corny

some of the other pull-quotes here are more promising though

He had to expect that people would have felt that way, hence the laugh track. This part always makes me chuckle: Oh good the stranger’s body’s still here/ Our arrangement hasn’t changed

corny != funny unless you are xposting some distance to the slapstick humor post

I like some songs on Fear Fun. But I think that croup is correct in calling out 'Bored In the USA'. It doesn't work as well for me as similar stuff from Nilsson (or Newman), such as 'Gotta Get Up'->'Driving Along' or 'Love Story (You and Me)'.

Nilsson could be sincere and moving. FJM does not try for that.

you know, I was going to say the same thing. but then I thought 'Oh wait, he has a song titled 'o i long to feel your arms around me''. and well...

so I am still looking for something sincere because I think that is something I'm missing compared to Nilsson or Grant.

yeah i shouldn't have compared him to a great like nilsson

there's a kind of 70s pro studio vibe to it though, grant kinda has that too

The schism btwn his records as J. Tillman and FJM is really interesting to me, as the Tillman records are more traditionally "sincere"-sounding, yet he is much more engaging in this new persona. (Which he claims to be a more honest representation of where he's at these days, anyway.)

Nilsson doesn't seem like the right point of comparison to me. If we're talking 70s pro-studio gloss + darkly cynical/sarcastic lyrics about sex and drugs and assholes then the obvious reference point is everyone's favorite Coachella 2015 performers

hmmm. FJM songs have so much reverb, though, and it doesn't really sound 70s pro-studio gloss imo. And I don't think you'll see too many drummers drumming along to these FJM songs on youtube anytime ever.

Ideal Husband is great. That second verse is so brutal. I do find his lyrics moving actually.

guys guys you're going waaaaaay too far back for your reference points

consider bright eyes and later bad seeds

ok that was ign'nt since i've only heard bored in the usa

haha very ignorant just after flipping through "bored" again and some other stuff. i think his caustic literalness just reminds me of some of their stuff, but the sound is very different

i'll accept he sounds further back, how about a meaner rupert holmes

He does have some of Cave's black sense of humour but I hear Nilsson all over this. I think it's the arrangements and the general air of 70s LA barfly debauchery. He wears a string section like an old suit that needs dry cleaning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTRpLhyVHqI

Life's a constant disappointment
When you live on celluloid
But my movie expectations are a dream I can't avoid
Waiting for a girl to say the things
That I heard in a film last night
But she doesn't want to play the role
And she can't pick her cues up right
Will I dream? Yes, I might

his hooks would have to be hookier and his attitude more whimsical (if dark) for me to bring up nilsson above 80 other 70s singer-songwriters

As a genre I like "charismatic self-loathing asshole who wrecks everything he touches but has a great arranger".

lol that prob deserves its own thread

marcus maronus

As a 70s singer-songwriter archetype it beats "soulful nice guy who wants you to forgive his fuck-ups because it's so hard making it in this crazy world"

you guys are hilarious.

can't wait for the divorce album

people put out too many records...these days...

10 albums! (plus EPs and singles...)

but how much does he resemble jackson browne?

God sends his spaceships to America the beautiful
They land at six o'clock and there we are, the dutiful
Eating from TV trays
Tuned into Happy Days
Waiting for World War III while Jesus slaves
To the mating calls of lawyers in love

when oswald shot kennedy he was insane and still we watch the reruns again and again...

but how much does he resemble jackson browne?

― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton),

You should prob check out Blake Mills' "don't tell all your friends about me" if you're looking for a jackson browne version of this.

not that you were

i thought that was so profound in whatever year that was...

but how much does he resemble jackson browne?

― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton),

You should prob check out Blake Mills' "don't tell all your friends about me" if you're looking for a jackson browne version of this.

― Heez, Thursday, January 15, 2015 11:57 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I like this. I need to find this thread.

actually, I saw Blake Mills with Fiona Apple in 2014 and then forgot to check this album out

i was asleep and driving my kids to school this morning and i swear this is the first time i ever heard this song. on the radio in the car. i looked it up. no. 2 in the country! who knew? or it was no. 2. sold 190,000 copies. of the album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYSVMgRr6pw

it was just a weird song to hear in the car in the morning. while asleep. i was all: pop radio is weird or something...where's my all about the bass song i hear twice in ten minutes on the ride to school?

it wasn't unpleasant to hear. and way way better than the faux-arcade fire geronimo song i heard a little later on the radio.

these nu-dudes are all over the place. john grant is the first one i was genuinely moved by.

funny that john grant also has a song with honeybear in the title

sometime last year a critic I don't always like (steven hyden) said something about this album like "it is likely to inspire rapturous reviews and unreadable thinkpiecess" and after several listens to it...that seems pretty otm

FJM unveils stunning new digital release strategy

http://www.fatherjohnmisty.com/sap/

Those SAP'd renditions are great.

Josh Tillman is on some fuck shit. I loved the three new tracks I heard in the lead-up to the album's release (well, leak), but I should've sensed that I was in for a disappointment when I found myself returning exclusively to live versions of the songs. Like the last album, which featured sterilized, overproduced versions of his demos and live cuts--another clue I should've caught--this one has been so diluted in the studio as to make close listening to his lyrics unpleasant.

But, the thing is, even his lyrics--sharp as they sometimes are--tend to veer into their own sort of excess. Which is to say that, for all their wit, they're sometimes so willfully clever, so self-satisfied that they read like the sass of an adolescent who's just discovered sarcasm.

The lyrics and the overproduction, then, work similarly and together: they often seem pointless--and he pointlessly clever, pointlessly cruel--and they more often seem to miss the point entirely--that, for instance, Tillman comes across as more or less the male equivalent to the person he's bitching about in "The Night Josh Tillman Came to Our Apartment". Maybe that's part of the joke, but the sheer, overwhelming amount of sarcasm and self-consciousness (self-obsession, really) makes it hard to read his intentions well, makes it hard to tell whether and when he's being genuine. I mean, this is probably a dumb question, but my confusion maybe epitomizes my response to the album: he's making fun of us on "True Affection", right, with its vocal effects and its pop-electro instrumental? He's mocking us like he mocks the girl who uses the word "literally" too often and in the wrong situations--as Tillman himself mis- and over-applies his needlessly cutting lyricism and his studio bells and whistles. It seems instructive that Tillman, in spite of his apparent disdain for the girl in "The Night Josh Tillman...", chooses to sleep with her anyway.

http://grantland.com/features/father-john-misty-i-love-you-honeybear/

excellent longform profile

xp based on what he sez in the profile, i think he just wanted to mess around with electro sounds on "true affection" and evidently liked the way it came out - that particular song is not a piss-take on the listener altho it is supposed to be about how frustrating electronic communication can be.

also i don't think how faltering in your own actions in spite of your frustration with someone or something - like, sleeping with a guy or girl you are angry with or even disdainful of - is anything other than an incredibly human thing, albeit a very ugly/unflattering one

Debates about authenticity are boring and pointless

prob but we gotta get these posts off

brilliant marketing
http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0616/5709/products/fjm_shirt_mascera.jpg?v=1422377034

Can someone tell me what distinguishes the music of Kozelek and this clown from the endless supply of Earnest Singer-Songwriter Dudes that pfork 2015 routinely ignores / ostensibly despises? I mean, apart from narcissistic lyrics that occasionally read like the "outrageous" tweets of an oversharing friend?

this guy doesn't seem particularly earnest as much as painfully self-conscious and hiding behind layers of irony which is more obnoxious

ooh the backlash

don't see any similarities to Kozelek tbh

this guy doesn't seem particularly earnest as much as painfully self-conscious and hiding behind layers of irony which is more obnoxious

that seems to be the difference JD was wondering about

still think Steely Dan is the closest analogue. I guess people found them obnoxious too

(not in terms of jazz-rock chops obviously, but in terms of juxtaposing slick, pretty music with bleakly cynical/ironic lyrics)

this guy doesn't seem particularly earnest as much as painfully self-conscious and hiding behind layers of irony which is more obnoxious

that seems to be the difference JD was wondering about

― Dinsdale, Tuesday, February 10, 2015 11:48 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

bingo

He doesn't seem to be hiding behind irony as much as he just really enjoys irony, moreso in interviews/persona than in the music itself tbh, which is mostly pretty straightforward

I think that's my main issue with it - he's not committed to it. As a result the context, to me, seems less Bonnie Billy and more I'm Still Here or something. It's neither compelling nor especially inscrutable in a way that makes you wanna peel the layers. It just feels like a bad gimmick. Which would be fine if the music he was producing wasn't bland as bread.

hmm Oldham is an interesting point of comparison - particularly "Sings Greatest Palace Music". I'm not interested in peeling layers in general though. it's the songs that count.

he does have an I'm Still Here beard

and I see that he pooped on my spotify as I slept last night

xp Do they, though? There are far, far better songwriters who put out records last year that don't seem to get the same attention, mostly because their music doesn't lend itself as easily to lifestyle reporting. I also don't think it's a coincidence that Kozelek's star seemed to rise in proportion to his trolling.

kozelek's trolling better described as "bread bowling"

xp Do they, though? There are far, far better songwriters who put out records last year that don't seem to get the same attention, mostly because their music doesn't lend itself as easily to lifestyle reporting. I also don't think it's a coincidence that Kozelek's star seemed to rise in proportion to his trolling.

― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Tuesday, February 10, 2015 12:44 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If you make yourself equal to a compelling character in an indie flick people start to care. Your backstory or whatever else on the outside needs to fuel your musical output and is more important than how interesting the music itself is.

with FJM the persona and all its attendant bells and whistles ultimately benefit the music & lyrics, so it isn't bothersome to me

yeah I find it a compelling character, much like Bonnie Prince Billie (or Dylan or any other number of "I can't tell if this is a joke" ironists) in that respect

I think most importantly the songs are confident and colorful, and the arrangements are big but detailed and not boring. Also it's very well-sequenced. "Holy Shit" and "I Went to the Store One Day" are a great closing pair.

Just got the vinyl, which came w a cassette of demos (incl a cass mccombs cover)

What song did he cover?

nobody's nixon

Great choice. Love that song, love the EP it's from.

lol @ the canned audience in Bored in the USA - figured that was just a Letterman gag

on first couple listens - this has a more uniform sound than the previous one (dude sure loves his string section), and I don't hear anything as immediately catchy. it feels v langurous, albeit in a predictably bitter and mysanthropic way. the last few songs seem like the peak.

(not in terms of jazz-rock chops obviously, but in terms of juxtaposing slick, pretty music with bleakly cynical/ironic lyrics)

steely dan lyrics way more oblique than this dude. the juxtaposition you identify here is literally everywhere in music

well I didn't say it was unique

agree that the Dan's stuff is more oblique

I think I probably find the persona more interesting than I would've otherwise because I was already very familiar with his much more po-faced output as J. Tillman.

I guess the other reason I brought up the Dan is because the sonic territory FJM is mining here sounds p explicitly LA 70s, albeit from more of the country-rock end then the jazz-rock end

can't escape this dude's music playing in coffee shops

Have started enjoying this more once I have stopped worrying whether it is any good or not, if that makes sense?

Sometimes self satisfied, undeniably, but this > "and then he drops a song that is just plain beautiful like I Went To The Store One Day".

http://www.citypaper.com/music/music-boxes/strum-und-twang/bcp-strum-und-twang-fuck-father-john-misty-fuck-bob-dylan-listen-to-zane-campbell-20150303,0,6672882.story

Guy who has produced unknown Maryland artist Zane Campbell writes guest article for Baltimore City Paper ripping into Father John Misty and others

He starts like this:

First things first: There is no more room in the United States for even one more Father Chode or Father John Misty or whatever the fuck the newest know-it-all trippy sensitive white yuppie songwriter rehashing the ’60s is called. Will the bros and rich kids please stay the fuck out of country and folk music, for crying out loud? You have fucking ruined it beyond all repair with your literary allusions and private-school educations and insecure fake tough-guy shit. Don’t come back either. You aren’t funny or tough or witty and you are clogging up the inboxes of all the booking agents and critics with your reverb-drenched non-singing guitar-noodling ass horseshit and creating more traffic on the roadways while “going on tour.”

I know this dude has a clear motive, but he's not wrong.

laughable authenticity policing bullshit

Yup

Fjm is the worst tho

This is narcissism of the smallest difference.

No bros or rich kids in country music! Enough is enough amirite

Anyway Holy Shit seems to be the standout track to me now. Album ends strong.

Down with this kind of artifice! Up with the kind of artifice I like!

this is literally a concept album about a coffee-shop intellectual falling in love with a hipster party girl

That article's embarrassing. What relevance does FJM have to country anyway?

zero

your literary allusions and private-school educations
http://www.nndb.com/people/908/000023839/KrisKristofferson.jpg
^^^rhodes scholar

^^^bro

I like how the subeditor of that article clearly thinks there is a real artist called Father Chode

http://concert.arte.tv/fr/soiree-de-poche-father-john-misty

ILYH has grown on me a lot since it came out. One of my faves of the year now.

there's a couple missteps but yeah it's good

i generally have an aversion to stuff like this but this album is excellent.

Finally heard this. Adam Green did the kind of nice singing w some cuss words thrown in for shock better imo. The production is really nice, you can tell he wants to be Harry Nilsson, but doesn't have the bite or wit or gift w a melody of any of the aforementioned.

He killed it at Glastonbury. Reminded me of Nick Cave as a performer. Honeybear, Bored in the USA and Ideal Husband were particularly great. iplayer link for UK Ilxors:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02v3j54/glastonbury-2015-father-john-misty

Saw this on Facebook today:

Father John Misty
1 hr ·
I’d like to briefly clarify my comments to Billboard about duality, and “where I belong” etc.
In the past year or so the question of where I’m going to go in terms of a label, publishing, etc and what I want for my career has been up in the air. I’ve never been in a position to field interest from major labels and publishers before and I’ll admit it can make you nervous and raise existential type questions like “Who am I? What do I believe in? What kind of artist am I?” etc
Drawing a line, recognizing certain dualities, or making a distinction, like I’m talking about to the interviewer, is important in terms of not becoming totally misguided in a process like this. While pragmatism is good, sometimes ideals are important too, and perhaps even more useful in making a decision with real consequences on your ability to survive creatively. I personally think I am more likely to thrive outside the major label thing and my minor brushes with mainstream levels of attention have left me with totally bewildered how anyone habitually lives with it.
I don’t harbor any delusion my music is too radically unique or subversive to be appreciated by the masses, and there are more than enough examples of iconoclast major label artists to make a case that as a rule pop art is more frequently progressive where artists like me are relatively provincial.
As a consumer of music, I only have the things that I instinctually do and don’t like, like anyone else. I tend to intellectualize, to my peril, the reasons I don't like the things I don’t like, but that’s just for cheap thrills (or at worst to sanctify my taste). I won’t bore anyone with a comprehensive list of pop artists that I like, or contrarily the non-mainstream music I don’t like.
As far as “objective judgments based on beauty” and whatever, I’m in the habit lately of blindly attacking a post-modern strawman that may or may not exist. It’s my current hobbyhorse, what can I say.
All in all, I’ve kind of lost my sense of humor with the whole enterprise of press, which is unfortunate for anyone with an internet connection.
Yours eventually,
JT

the sort of self indulgent waffle one might gladly expect from this bad artist

forgive me but one should never have to clarify anything, especially not like this

I am perhaps uncharitable but I have endured the gentleman's music

I love his stuff, but I'm not sure what this is in reference to. Tried to look him up on Billboard, but couldn't see anything related to these comments.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/6746284/father-john-misty-talks-taylor-swift-1989-covers-pop-music-at-pitchfork-festival-paris

Ah.

let me guess he is looking down on this media frenzy laughing with wild abandon at his grand social experiment of whether billboard would print an interview with a musician how very clever and post modern

i...don't think he cares that much

lol @ Billboard hosebags:

It’s sentiments like that one and Tillman’s ongoing interest in bringing philosophical theories into discussions about music (he references Marx’s commodity fetishism several times)

what a way out concept, commodity fetishism

He's great and I get what he's trying to say in that statement. It all seems pretty unobjectionable.

yeah imago should dial it down a little: narcissism of small differences has never been a good look on anyone, y'know?

i am sad because i parsed the billboard url wrong -- i thought it was 'father john misty talks taylor swift, covers pop music'; not 'talks taylor swift covers, pop music'

yeah imago should dial it down a little

Why start now?

Oh, I just love the kind of woman who can walk over a man
I mean like a goddamn marching band
She says, like literally, music is the air she breathes
And the malaprops make me want to fucking scream
I wonder if she even knows what that word means
Well, it's literally not that

I think this verse opens well enough with witty FJM irony, but what's up with complaining abt misuse of "literally"?

also guess "goddamn" and "fucking" are supposed to add urgency and at same time humour bcz of juxtaposition to monotone delivery and cute music - but to my ears sounds LAME

anyway, this verse has been annoying me lately, just my 2 cents

actually it reads p well, maybe it's more the musical delivery I don't like

cause it reads like a "funny" inner monologue from a novel with a "charmingly" idiosyncratic character

hahahahahaha this guy is such a cunt

what's up with complaining abt misuse of "literally"?

He misuses malaprops as he does so, deliberately you'd think.

xp haha, maybe that's actually what I wanted to say

I'm sure it's deliberate but that particular ironic aesthetic does nothing for me, this youtube commenter get's it though:

The layers in the opening verse are amazing, the misuse of malaprop in describing the girl he perceives as trite and pretentious is trite and pretentious in its own right. This is what makes FMJ great; within every song where he lashes out at society and other people, he also questions himself and his own perceptions and understanding of what is 'right'.

just heard this bad musician for the first time on colbert

can't stomach this guy

This is what makes FMJ great; within every song where he lashes out at society and other people, he also questions himself and his own perceptions and understanding of what is 'right'.

this is what might make, like, an episode of power rangers great

^what?

looool

father john misty is hacking up his housemate, music, with a sword, but all the while he is regretting his decisions

Looking forward to seeing this brilliant album right up there in the poll.

I'm really sorry I don't like his music because I love the cover art to the Honeybear album.

https://devonrecordclub.com/2016/04/20/father-john-misty-i-love-you-honeybear-round-89-nicks-choice/

Great stuff. You really nail what makes this record so good there.

Thank you. It's easily the record Em and I have spent the most time listening to and talking about since the sprog was born, I've been absolutely fascinated with it in a way I've not been with another record in a long time.

even as a huge FJM fan, has to be said he came across as a bit of a self important tosser here. somehow Radcliffe and Maconie's (very) mild joshing seemed to rattle him. although Maconie was perhaps unnecessarily uppity. at last night's gig he called it 'one of the worst moments of my life'. pretty easy life he's had then.

also he appeared according to follow up tweets to think it was *local* radio! as opposed to the leading national radio audience he could possibly have had at that moment in the UK.

http://www.stereogum.com/1877059/hear-father-john-mistys-awkward-interview-on-bbc-radio-6-music-today/news/

class comments to the youtube-version:

Josh has answered all of these questions hundreds of times before/they misinterpret the whole point of the Father John Misty persona/the guy has been touring for literal months and would be stressed as fuck at two middle-aged dudes who don't have the slightest idea at what his act is about and probably don't give a shit either, who are just trying to engage with him on a purely superficial level

Seemed less "car crash" than I'd expected from the internet.

Have never listened to "Radcliffe & Maconie" before (though used to listen to "Mark & Lard" and have read decent things by Maconie) and I could see why an interviewee might find them irritating.

wow an ironic prius ad now i really want to listen to this guy

New album PURE COMEDY out April 7th

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cejjqC1oyQM

lookin forward to it

I liked both of the albums a lot but the new song honestly belongs in rolling worst '17

nah sounds good to me. a bit reminiscent of the closing track on the last album

it's basically a retread of the sentiment from "Bored in the USA" only even more thuddingly obvious and attached to a neverending plod. he's much better when he's in self-effacing/mocking mode

have to avoid coffee shops for a couple of years now jeez

fucking hate him he is the worst

you guys are all wrong

Every once in a while I'll feel a little guilty about not keeping up with 'indie rock' the way I used to, and then I remember that people in 2017 actually take this fucking guy seriously, and I go happily back to my psych reissues and Fact mixes

"Father John Misty"

lol

your power rangers joke was hilarious and infinitely smarter and funnier than anything this guy has done

Joke's on you guys imo

Farter John Shitty

his cover of Lennon's "God" last year was p great

tracklist!

Pure Comedy
Total Entertainment Forever
Things It Would Be Helpful to Know Before the Revolution
Ballad of the Dying Man
Birdie
Leaving LA
A Bigger Paper Bag
When the God of Love Returns There'll Be Hell to Pay
Smoochie
Two Wildly Different Perspectives
The Memo
So I’m Growing Old on Magic Mountain
In Twenty Years or So

Vinyl pre-orders will receive a 7” single featuring the first physical release of fan favourite “Real Love Baby” on the A-side and the as yet unreleased track, "Rejected Generic Pop Song.

the idea of a 13 minute fjm song is terrifying

I think someone like Randy Newman makes ironic pop tunes work v well, but FJM seems so self-important and clever abt it makes you wanna punch his face

it's basically a retread of the sentiment from "Bored in the USA" only even more thuddingly obvious and attached to a neverending plod. he's much better when he's in self-effacing/mocking mode

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, January 24, 2017 8:39 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Exactly what I felt. Like, be more on the nose.

seems like he's made friends again with BBC6

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04rw622

the 13 minute song is present and correct.

word around the campfire is that the album's amazing.

the campfire that is not ilx

that's the one.

Wimmels sez:
Every once in a while I'll feel a little guilty about not keeping up with 'indie rock' the way I used to, and then I remember that people in 2017 actually take this fucking guy seriously, and I go happily back to my psych reissues and Fact mixes

I feel that guilt, too, but substitute krautrock for psych and post-punk for Fact.

I ran across a couple of tunes from this guy's new album and, musically, they're fine, mellow, uninteresting. Lyrically, though, I can't be too harsh. I mean, if you're a 30-something songwriter and watching our political landscape, wouldn't you want to rail against the dying of the light?

So if this is modern protest music, I'm fine with it but won't be singing along at the next march.

I posted "two wildly different perspectives" in Rolling Worst, it's somehow even worse than the title track despite being half the length

Some musicians you want to romantically imagine you'd follow them off a cliff for. This guy I would be happy to hurl off a cliff.

reserving judgment til I can listen to the new one in its entirety but the first two are great, sorry you guys don't like irony or performance art anymore, haters gonna hate

Man, fuck irony or performance art as an excuse, dude's just boring.

I used to defend him on the grounds of his self-effacing humour helping to make the would-be profundity go down easier but his newfound humorlessness makes him impossible to listen to

I don't think it's an excuse it's just... what it is, and some people seem to miss that (cf this accusation of "newfound humorlessness" for ex.) Who he really reminds me of is Nilsson, sort of agent-provacateur pop

and Nilsson also threaded the line between being emotionally affecting and confrontational or silly, loads of sarcasm and humor alternately undercutting or bolstering the more seriously emotional stuff

maybe FJM will do an album of standards next lol

that's all fine, it's the "political" angle that does him in, he's like a Bono level terribly political lyricist and the "performative" layer just makes it worse somehow

stuff like "Holy Shit" managed to just barely make that balance work but these new songs just tip right over into nightmare fodder

well like I said I'll reserve judgment til I hear the whole thing, I haven't listened to this new stuff

I thought "Holy Shit" was v good

if he has in fact turned to earnest Bono-ing yeah I might be getting off the boat

album is really dull, coming from someone who really likes honeybear and fear fun. so many plodding piano ballads, that literally all seem to be about an end-of-the-world reckoning and making pithy statements about how silly the whole world is. every track seems like it should be the final track on the album. i was listening to it without looking at the tracklisting and i couldn't believe another song kept coming on

i've steadfastly detested this artist since the beginning and in a way that was likely untenably, unreasonably prejudiced but i'm glad to learn that even his fans are beginning to turn on him

also would rather eat a nine day-old Whopper sat on by Baron Harkonnen than be forced to read Sir Elton interviewing Misty Joe Fuckface

― Wimmels, Tuesday, March 21, 2017 1:36 PM (two days ago)

I was put off listening to him for a long time by the unending stream of rubbish he said in interviews. I eventually forced myself to have a browse around in case I was missing out. Real Love Baby is a great song, even if (because?) it's a complete early solo Lennon ripoff. Everything else though was dull, plodding shite, with the odd clunky 'provocative' line. I can't be arsed to listen to any more, life is short and there's way too much good music out there to be wasting my time on him.

I don't have a problem with this man

not that I've heard his music or anything

piano ballads, that literally all seem to be about an end-of-the-world reckoning and making pithy statements about how silly the whole world is. every track seems like it should be the final track on the album

he's good at these but yeah idk if I can take a whole album of this. I like a little variety. and he's good at the sprightlier tunes ("Well You Can Do It Without Me", "I'm Writing a Novel", "Chateau Lobby #4")

yknow I could really go for a whole album of "Well You Can Do It Without Me" type jaunty country-pop but I guess he's too "smart" for that or whatever

"Real Love Baby" is great because he didn't write it for the insufferable Father John Misty character he's lost himself in. Truth be told, his earnest folk albums as J. Tillman are pretty unlistenable, but at least he was easy to ignore back then. It's frustrating now because every stunt he pulls gets hot take'd into death—the novelty songs, the interviews, the controversial lyrics, the stage rants—clogging up news feeds for days. Worse, it all happens with the knowledge that he's really talented and can make infectious pop songs (i.e. "Real Love Baby") but decides to spiral further down into his meta rabbit hole of masturbatory in-jokes and freshman philosophy level musings. He's funny, too, but that gets obscured by the fact he doesn't think a musician can court fame without compromising some antiquated notion of authenticity.

Oh no a musician w personal ethics how terrible rmde

The problem is that he tries to impose those personal ethics on other artists. He said to Rolling Stone, "Artists need to consider whether they can live with themselves if they’re just singing about breakups and whatever," like his dorm room critical theory is any more socially Important.

in the current rush to destroy straight white guys i fail to understand how this one isn't first on the list

"Artists" is obviously generalized/abstract there, I'm sure he's including himself in that statement.

Xp

doesn't make it much better

he doesn't think a musician can court fame without compromising some antiquated notion of authenticity.

― Handsome Bookor, Thursday, March 23, 2017 9:09 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

isn't Pitchfork proving him right, though? It's as if his publicist concocts a new 'hot take" every day and Pitchfork are just hanging on the line waiting to see if the latest scoop will be about Stranger Things or Kanye or Taylor or...

Again, his thing--such that it is--is working, despite the pushback. A lot of people I know know this guy's name, very very few have heard his music or even the name of his latest album ("It's 'Honeyboo-boo something-something' right?")

in the current rush to destroy straight white guys i fail to understand how this one isn't first on the list

― call all destroyer, Thursday, March 23, 2017 10:48 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

completely otm

not sure I can ever truly forgive Aziz Ansari for building an episode of Master of None around seeing this tool in concert.

Yeah, true. In his defense, though, is his dilettanteishness blandery. He isn't /quite/ dumb enough to write off entirely, /quite/ pretentious enough to eye-roll, /quite/ drab enough to become wallpaper, /quite/ honest enough to be admirable. I find his antic persona weirdly relatable- like, the kind of dumb inchoate shit I might say if given a pop platform.

It's as if his publicist concocts a new 'hot take" every day and Pitchfork are just hanging on the line waiting to see if the latest scoop will be about Stranger Things or Kanye or Taylor or...

The annoying thing, as far as I see it, is that he wants to have it both ways. Sing about VR sex with Taylor Swift, get a lot of press for his album, and then say it's social commentary. He'll make the songs, and then criticize people for liking them.

Total Entertainment Forever = totally Captain Fantastic era Elton.

he doesn't think a musician can court fame without compromising some antiquated notion of authenticity.

which is itself a fucking tired antiquated notion. at least Bowie invented a space alien.

Who he really reminds me of is Nilsson, sort of agent-provacateur pop

he really sounds like he wants to sound like Nilsson. but he doesn't have the pipes, he doesn't have the charm, he doesn't have the humor. Nilsson was effortless and sly and dgaf. he could get you thrown out of a club even if you were John Lennon.

this guy is a tryhard, safe as milk coffee shop rebel. the pomo "What is authenticity?" stuff is tired, old, leaden Trenchant Social Commentary.

lol @ "You guys don't know irony!" it's a lot like watching a bad comedian and people defending them by saying "You don't get it/It's going over your head".

like, ah yes, it is "performance art", that means i must shut my brain off and appreciate everything he is doing.

I'll grant that he doesn't have Nilsson's pipes, but that's a p high bar

no one can sing like that guy

this guy was being interviewed by Charlie Stayt and Steph McGovern on BBC Breakfast this morning! I didn't realise he had any profile beyond ilm/pitchfork etc

A "tryhard?" What a fantastically shitty thing to say.

yeah, don't try as hard!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=try-hard

A person who puts a large amount of effort into achieving a certain image, or counter-image, to the point where it is obviously contrived. Rather than achieving an image through genuine personality, the try-hard consciously attempts to fit a certain style through deliberate imitation, forced style, or scripted behavior. That is to say, he/she is trying hard to create an image.

here you go wise guys

he seems pretty up-front about his image being totally contrived and putting a lot of effort into it idgi

Rather than achieving an image through genuine personality,

lol, who's priveleging tired notions of authenticity now?

i really liked his cover of "God"

he seems pretty up-front about his image being totally contrived and putting a lot of effort into it idgi

ah, the old "It's performance art!" get out of jail free card. i am well aware he has made this disclaimer. it's all he has. it's just not interesting. this is an uninteresting person musing about how interesting they are.

i actually like everything about FJM except his music. it's a drag

when someone like David Bowie or Madonna does the self aware performance art deconstruction thing, it was about that journey, not about how clever they were for doing so.

also, their music was awesome, which certainly helped the medicine go down

ah, the old "It's performance art!" get out of jail free card. i am well aware he has made this disclaimer. it's all he has. it's just not interesting. this is an uninteresting person musing about how interesting they are.

I'm not using it as a get out of jail free card, I'm pointing out that your critique of his persona makes no sense/is inconsistent.

Madonna's music is 99% garbage

Nilsson doesn't seem like the right point of comparison to me. If we're talking 70s pro-studio gloss + darkly cynical/sarcastic lyrics about sex and drugs and assholes then the obvious reference point is everyone's favorite Coachella 2015 performers

― Οὖτις, Thursday, January 15, 2015 9:22 AM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha btw I obviously changed my mind about this, although I do still think the Dan are also a good pt of comparison (sans the smooth jazz chops obviously and maybe unfortunately)

OBVIOUSLY, I say

@Adam Still a horrible term, even though you didn't make it up.

I still like FJM, although so far the new tracks have all been a bit samey: ponderous ballads with shoehorned-in lyrics and meandering melodies.

ponderous ballads with shoehorned-in lyrics and meandering melodies.

this is literally the dictionary definition of indie music, what more could you want?

<i>Madonna's music is 99% garbage

― Οὖτις,</i>

dude no. it's much more like 45% garbage

70s pro-studio gloss + darkly cynical/sarcastic lyrics about sex and drugs and assholes

if you want to do this & don't have the stones to go full trainwreck like tim buckley c greetings from la, then you should be doing something else.

I dont know that one, will check it

Omg Greetings from LA is amazing avant sleeze, like US Maple goes LA coke rock, FJM's arms are too short to box w god

i kinda hate buckley's vox in general unfortunately

figured i'd drop in to see how angry this album made people....and ya didn't disappoint lol

i've never fully been able to comprehend how people who were probably 100 percent in the tank for 9 zillion other indie artists with performative as fuck attitudes who said dumb things find /this/ fuckin dork (which i say as a fan) to be the straw that breaks the rage-camel's back, but w/e i guess

(and if anyone thinks he actually is "offended" by pop stars making pop songs they're taking the most obvious bait. if what enrages you is him dropping the bait in the first place, thats an entirely fair criticism. and i personally wish he'd never opened his bloody mouth about taylor swift, whom i generally like.)

ALL THAT SAID, "leaving L.A." is all his worst aspects taken to sadistic extremes and overall this record is only gonna make people who hate him hate him 9,000 times more. but it feels reeaaaallly appropriate for my beer and missile strike news hangover & my suspicion that we're all gonna die soon

wb sloth! stick around awhile

The Rolling Stone interview where he tries to pretend that "Swift" is the only word that rhymed with "Occulus Rift" was highly stupid. Obviously it was for attention...perhaps he's just trolling. But like if I had never heard him before that, I would honestly not bother seeking him out.

The disproportionate attention given to the TS line is kinda pathetic. Some reviewers doth protest too much.

A divisive record I guess, but I'm loving it. FJM's prior work didn't register with me and his recent SNL performance only disgusted me with what seemed an awkward and self-conscious attempt at, ugh, ironic performance art. But I happened to be bored one day and casually dug into a lengthy interview with him, which prompted me to get past my bias and sample the new album. Strangely enough it's been my main listen for the past week or so, despite it feeling overly long on the first few listens. The record itself doesn't seem at all ironic but then again, I also tend to listen to Jim O'Rourke on just the visceral level. My reaction to Pure Comedy is closer to what sloth has concluded above, in that this album (and the lyrics in particular) is one of the very few things working as I watch in sad horror while the two superpowers on opposite sides of my own country begin to square off.

This guy is worse than Bon Iver and I didn't know that was possible.

so a pop singer said he doesn't like pop songs when in reality he... does? doesn't? it doesn't matter what he means so long as it has been made clear that he is being controversial.

oh wow, i really fell for the bait. what a brilliant trickster.

The mere mention of the name "Jim O'Rourke" on a thread about this imbecile is a crime (and yes I see the context and yes I realize it wasn't a comparison, but I'm thinking more of the scene in A Bronx Tale where Sonny doesn't want the kid in the crap game to have to look at the ugly mobster's face when he's throwing the dice so he covers the ugly mobster's head with a bag)

see, that mention of Jim O'Rourke makes me want to check this record out. really didn't like the title track but i'll give it a chance.

shakey reppin so hard for this dude is o_O

xpost Careful Flappy, I intended no direct comparisons between JO and FJM

so a pop singer said he doesn't like pop songs when in reality he... does? doesn't? it doesn't matter what he means so long as it has been made clear that he is being controversial.

oh wow, i really fell for the bait. what a brilliant trickster.

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, April 7, 2017 3:09 PM (fifty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you fall for it by being cranky enough to repeatedly complain about it on an internet website, not to mention me saying i didn't necessarily think dropping bait was the least bit "brilliant" in the first place

xpost Careful Flappy, I intended no direct comparisons between JO and FJM

― doug watson, Friday, April 7, 2017 3:49 PM (thirty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i realize that, but the mere mention of one of my favorite artists ever is enough for me to listen to Pure Comedy at least once

http://everetttrue.wordpress.com/2017/04/07/father-john-misty-the-unpublished-poems/

#makesyouthink

I get why people dislike this guy but I'm still baffled by why some would spend so much of their energy doing so. I couldn't imagine giving up even one free thought toward, say, "the missing poems of Dave Longstreth."

I think it's because he's a more frustrating figure than Dave Longstreth. Extramusically, FJM is either captivating or infuriating, there's no in between: he can be genuinely hilarious and insightful, or maddeningly pretentious and condescending. This carries over into his music, too—the dorm room philosophy of "Pure Comedy" is so much worse than "Bored in the USA," a funnier, if just as obvious, piece of social commentary—but my main gripe is that his songs are too self-aware. Nothing beats "Real Love Baby," a straight-up pop song written for Lady Gaga. But he can't ethically record pop songs without making them postmodern critiques on consumerism, or something like that.

DL is simpler. You either dig him or you don't. I've never liked his music, and he seems like kind of a dick, so I don't bother with his stuff. He's never inspired the same disparate opinions from me.

i wanna see FJM and Dave Longstreth fight MMA style

either captivating or infuriating
feel like this type of false dilemma is often made by fans (or braggadocio rappers) and that the vast majority in fact find finds fjm neither

I get why people dislike this guy but I'm still baffled by why some would spend so much of their energy doing so. I couldn't imagine giving up even one free thought toward, say, "the missing poems of Dave Longstreth."

― doug watson, Friday, April 7, 2017 11:38 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

i actually like everything about FJM except his music. it's a drag

― flappy bird, Friday, 24 March 2017 21:51 (two weeks ago)

exact opposite for me.

which is probably why i love my J. Tillman albums but haven't gotten around to the last two FJMs.

i hate him

there are some really lovely songs on those Tillman albums tbf

you mean if you like watered-down, generic indie folkTM and you really really really wish Sam Beam would release his earliest, crappiest demos, yeah, totally

I've heard every Iron and Wine album and I don't think "Laborless Land," "Our Beloved Tyrant" and several others are beneath him at all.

my opinion is that he's good and that this album is good

I like this dude's music a lot. I'm listening to the new one for the first time. Some of it is good but man oh man this song Leaving LA is a slog.

This guy is having a huge moment, right? I was in a tiny record store on Friday and no joke like 10 people in a row came in and bought this record, which was retailing for $35 (!) because it was a deluxe first day edition with special artwork. It was pretty impressive - who else in the indie world gets people out for a new record like that right now?

I bought it on CD ($8.99!) and I like the first three or four songs a bunch, but it feels like a loooooong album with a bunch of songs in the middle that feel like first drafts of the first three or four songs.

Heard one of his new singles and it made me wanna hear Elton John's "Honky Chateau" instead. Seems like a normal reaction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggwo_31LFfo

I'm into this record. The lyrics are over-the-top and often side on too clever instead of flowing with the music but it nets out positive.

Still hate the style but the lyrics to "The Night Josh Tillman Came To Our Apt" are hilarious.

Watched this guy on the Coachella live stream Friday night. It was my first exposure to him. I hope it will also be the last. Is he serious or not? Is this a parody of an artist that takes themselves way too seriously or is this guy really like that? Lyrically, he seems to be trying very, very hard to seem deep and insightful, or at least 'honest' and direct, but it's just embarrassing to watch. Seemed extremely pretentious. Guess it makes a nice contrast to Gryffin, who was miming behind a Novation workstation in tight white jeans. Maybe you need the salty rim on your fruity drinks these days. I'm baffled though.

Is this a parody of an artist that takes themselves way too seriously or is this guy really like that?

if you start a po-faced indie band to satirize other po-faced indie ppl, at the end of the day are you still a po-faced indie person? Hmmm... Gonna say yeah. In fact your entire paradigm is exposed and you are inescapably corny at that point. so really there is no distinction.

so does "too clever" mean it's not clever enough? what makes a music/pop/indie artist "extremely pretentious" ? is there a sort of posturing going on that makes it inauthentic?

I think he is one of the most authentic artists ever. his music and persona tell you everything you need to know about him. it doesn't matter to what degree he is 'posturing' bc if you can choose how to present youself, why the fuck would you posture that way ?

wow no. 1 on Billboard rock chart (for what that's worth) http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7767985/father-john-misty-pure-comedy-rock-album-charts-number-one

I finally listened to the whole thing and whoever said upthread that every song is like a "last song on the album" is kind of right, except to me it's more like the whole album is just one looooong last song. It feels ambitious, like a concept record. I do miss some of the sonic variety of the previous albums - tempos never really get above a mild trot here, and he relies heavily on relatively small number of certain chord progression/compositional tricks. It's bizarre to me that something this ponderous and wordy is so successful but also great. I was casting about for comparisons and I think the Nilsson/Steely Dan/Randy Newman comparisons are still p apt (altho tbf Nilsson never went so far into this social commentary sorta stuff, and Misty isn't quite the storyteller Fagan is, at least not on this album) - but my brother also threw out Jarvis Cocker, which also struck me as on point. As a pop provocateur he is v satisfying imo.

"total entertainment forever" is an amazing song

I'm not going to listen to that song but from reading the lyrics I don't see why Arcade Fire are (rightfully) called out for this shit and FJM gets a pass:

Bedding Taylor Swift
Every night inside the Oculus Rift
After mister and the missus finish dinner and the dishes
And now the future's definition is so much higher than it was last year
It's like the images have all become real
And someone's living my life for me out in the mirror

No, can you believe how far we've come
In the New Age?
Freedom to have what you want
In the New Age we'll all be entertained
Rich or poor, the channels are all the same
You're a star now, baby, so dry your tears
You're just like them
Wake on up from the nightmare

Come on
Oh ho oh
Oh
Oh ho oh

No gods to rule us
No drugs to soothe us
No myths to prove stuff
No love to confuse us

Not bad for a race of demented monkeys
From a cave to a city to a permanent party

Come on
Oh ho oh
Oh
Oh ho oh

When the historians find us we'll be in our homes
Plugged into our hubs
Skin and bones
A frozen smile on every face
As the stories replay
This must have been a wonderful place

called out for what? the taylor swift line? being concerned about a generation consumed by escapism?

no no, just the clichéd criticism of contemporary society/technology

didn't mean to sound like an idiot btw, I'm fairly sure I heard the song when it was released and it didn't do anything for me, that's why I'm not keen to revisit

apart from the Swift/Rift reference those lyrics could have been from the 60s

I'm a big fan of "i hate to say it but each other's all we've got" at the end of the opening track on the album, not just the line, the way he delivers it. Listening to some of the rest of the album, he must be a big Vonnegut fan i'm guessing.

His delivery is a BIG part of the appeal. Win Butler does not come close. Win Butler's not in the same universe.

yeah they do totally different things imo

no doubt, I happen to find FJM's delivery more intolerable - listening to the song now and if ever there was a voice too clever for it's own good...

but I shouldn't comment so much on stuff I don't like

"total entertainment forever" is an amazing song

― Treeship, Monday, 30 October 2017 14:16 (four hours ago) Permalink

http://i66.tinypic.com/2ezpg04.jpg

I am simple, and easily amused.

Here's Father John Misty (Josh Tillman) during a chapel service, from my 1999 Montrose Christian School yearbook. pic.twitter.com/vsWsoVafnv

— C.D. Carter's good account (ironically) (@CDCarter13) November 17, 2017

idgi

he's been p upfront that he was raised in a weird Xtian fundie family

It's the wording of the caption that gets me.

"I'm recording sweet solos for the Lord." "How does--" "Shh."

he was just jammin for the Lamb

Sort of related, but was just thinking I'd totally be into a FJM Christmas album.

Elton John's been mentioned a few times itt, "Ballad of the Dying Man" came on shuffle recently and before I skipped it I was struck by how reminiscent it was of a Captain Fantastic track

New Single:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n38R1JTEAPo

Apparently the new album is a Concept Album about being Fucked Up In A Hotel (or, in other words, the most FJM thing FJM has ever FJM-d)

I was interested in his thing at first but the longer he keeps up with this schtick the grosser it seems and it’s retroactively ruining my enjoyment for his earlier material.

"total entertainment forever" is an amazing song
― Treeship, Monday, 30 October 2017 14:16 (three months ago) Permalink

were you high bro

"it’s retroactively ruining my enjoyment for his earlier material."

Yes, I'm experiencing this.

more like father dumb shitty

"total entertainment forever" is an amazing song
― Treeship, Monday, 30 October 2017 14:16 (three months ago) Permalink

were you high bro

― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Saturday, February 24, 2018 8:39 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I wasn’t but I am sort of mystified at my positive first reaction to it now.

he's not doubled down, but quadrupled down on the meta-josh-fjm schtick. tiresome.

One of the 2 new songs; Just Dumb Enough To Try is fantastic IMO.

'"Josh Tillman has said the new album is “the real I Love You, Honeybear but without the cynicism”'.

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/files/2018/04/fjm.jpg

new album is great. Definitely feels like a "smaller" record than "Pure Comedy" even though there's still a lot of big-sounding orchestration and slow piano balladry. Lot of great, funny lines, that's for sure.

Jason Isbell's here as well
And he seemed a little worried about you

They're co-headlining this summer!?!? Maybe they'll duet that song?

man I really like God's Favorite Customer.

He's Back...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES2WW4JJ_84

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdkzXL-KO5w

Two hour long Barbican show from earlier tonight. Many new bangers debuted. He legit sounds like Manhattan Transfer on a couple. Not a bad thing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIPp53FTYpU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o93hYhytAmI

the album from this year is really great. Stunning live show too.

This is pretty damn great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGk0QUXXj-4

I haven't kept up with FJM but gave the new one a spin and was impressed. First track and "Screamland" especially.

"Screamland" is epic, some other tracks hit on first listen but not at the same level. Will spin again.