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Father John Misty
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Monday May 7 (8pm–midnight)
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$13 advance
“Former Fleet Fox and longtime solo musician Josh (J.) Tillman has made his strangest, strongest album yet under new name Father John Misty. Fear Fun is at once a lovingly made album of Laurel Canyon folk and a wry skewering of the business and trappings of the modern folk scene (and the modern folkie, as played by Tillman) that has come to popular prominence in the years since Tillman first picked up an acoustic guitar. More simply, it's a deeply personal, compellingly conflicted album, and a massively pleasant listen.”
Eric Grandy, Flavorpill
When discussing ‘Father John Misty’, Tillman paraphrases Philip Roth: ’It’s all of me and none of me, if you can’t see that, you won’t get it’. What I call it is totally arbitrary, but I like the name. You’ve got to have a name. I never got to choose mine." He goes on, “‘People who make records are afforded this assumption by the culture that their music is coming from an exclusively personal place, but more often than not what you hear are actually the affectations of an ’alter-ego’ or a cartoon of an emotionally heightened persona,” says Josh Tillman, who has been recording/releasing solo albums since 2003 and who recently left Seattle’s Fleet Foxes after playing drums from 2008-2011. “That kind of emotional quotient isn’t sustainable if your concern is portraying a human-being made up of more than just chest-beating pathos. I see a lot of rampant, sexless, male-fantasy everywhere in the music around me. I didn’t want any alter-egos, any vagaries, fantasy, escapism, any over-wrought sentimentality. I like humor and sex and mischief. So when you think about it, it’s kind of mischievous to write about yourself in a plain-spoken, kind of explicitly obvious way and call it something like ‘Misty’. I mean, I may as well have called it ‘Steve’”.
Father John Misty's new album Fear Fun is available May 1, 2012 from Sub Pop and Bella Union, in the US and UK/EU respectively.
