Father John Misty has previewed plenty of material from his forthcoming third album, Pure Comedy, you might have noticed a certain darkness throughout, there’s much more across the album’s 75-minute run time to delve into. When Josh Tillman refers to the record as “lyrically dense” . You’ll have to wait until April 7th for Bella Union to release the record in its entirety. Tillman says of the new record “This album deals a lot with the fact that there isn’t a whole lot in this experience, in being a human, that is new. Everything comes back around. And these kinds of clichés, if you want to call them that, I think inform the work of just about everybody that I really love.
“I wanted to make music in the studio, instead of making tracks, so for the first time, I got a rhythm section together instead of just Jonathan [Wilson, producer] and I playing everything. I got a rhythm section together, we rehearsed for months, and then we got into the studio, and tracked guitar, bass, drums, piano and vocals, all live.
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“When you look at the title [of Pure Comedy], you can look at that title and it would be easy to say, like, ‘What a shallow, dismissive, cynical summation of human life.’ Or you look at it, and you can, I think, be liberated… I find great liberation in the absurdity of all this. Because that means that you can make your own meaning. And I really think that, that is just the mandate for every human.
“When you fall in love with someone, you don’t fall in love with the parts of them that make sense, or are explicitly beneficial; you fall in love with the fucked up, and the wounded, and the bizarre. Those are the things about people that you fall in love with, what solicits your empathy. Because you recognize those same things in yourself. And it’s an incredible relief when you realize that those things that make you flawed exist in other people. And that if you can have empathy for them, maybe you can have empathy for yourself, too.”
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Musical guest Father John Misty performs “Total Entertainment Forever” on Saturday Night Live.
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