Father John Misty has returned with a new song called ‘The Payoff’. It follows January’s ‘The Old Law’, and it’s noisy and grandiose in all the right ways. Josh Tillman co-produced the song with Drew Erickson, who’s recently done beautiful work with Lana Del Rey and Mitski.
The new single, “The Payoff,” this week. It’s out now on Sub Pop. There’s no official word if it’s a single from a forthcoming new album or EP or just a standalone track. Father John Misty is on tour this summer.
The song could be about a politician or administration conning their base voters while convincing them everything is actually going okay, when it’s clearly not. Or perhaps, with the cover art depicting what appears to be a military graveyard, it’s sung from the perspective of an official trying to justify a war. “Why bother getting pissed off when there’s / There’s nothing you can do,” Tillman sings as the song crescendos.
Michael Harris mixed and engineered the track at Fivestar Studios in Topanga, CA.
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In 2024 Father John Misty also released a best of album, “Greatish Hits: I Followed My Dreams and My Dreams Said to Crawl“. His studio album prior to that was 2022’s “Chloë and The Next 20th Century”.
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