While there’s been no official announcement of the new Fleet Foxes album this year, It will be their first since 2011’s Helplessness Blues, all signs are pointing toward a release very soon. Frontman Robin Pecknold has been suggesting at a new Fleet Foxes long player while also working on a solo album over the last couple of months and the band also reassured fans that they wouldn’t have to fly to an announced show in Ireland in July because “we’ll be doing a full world tour in 2017-18 .
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ROBIN PECKNOLD ( FLEET FOXES ) – ” Swimming “
Posted: January 10, 2017 in MUSICTags: Fleet Foxes, Robin Pecknold
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FATHER JOHN MISTY – ” Chateau Lobby #4 (in C for Two Virgins), Nothing Good Ever Happens At The Goddamn Thirsty Crow, Strange Encounters , ” Live at WFUV
Posted: February 4, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSICTags: Father John Misty, Fleet Foxes, I love You Honeybear, Josh Tillman, singer songwriter, WFUV Radio
Father John Misty and his new album, “I Love You, Honeybear“, is out next week. New York radio station WFUV has posted a video of a session featuring the man himself and his beautiful voice ,Father John Misty performing three songs from the record: “Chateau Lobby #4 (In C for Two Virgins)”, “Strange Encounters”, and “Nothing Good Ever Happens at the Goddamn Thirsty Crow”. This is truly a wonderful session and just gives an insight into the new album. “I Love You, Honeybear’, a self-described “concept record about a guy called Josh Tillman”, which is a terminal smartarse’s way of saying it’s a confessional – and what a revelation it turns out to be.
“I Love You, Honeybear” is out February 9th in Europe via Bella Union
Written around the time Tillman got hitched to this girlfriend, it’s a hugely ambitious, caustically funny album about the redemptive possibilities of love, Songs like ‘The Night Josh Tillman Came To Our Apartment’ (“I love the kind of woman who can walk over a man/I mean like a goddamn marching band”) and ‘The Ideal Husband’ suggest a man whose soul needs, saving,
With a very Harry Nilsson-esque and a brilliant title ‘Nothing Good Ever Happens At The Goddamn Thirsty Crow’, the ambition pays off beautifully. But he saves the best for a piano ballad, previous single ‘Bored In The USA’, which undercuts the lyric’s narcissism (“Is this the part where I get all I ever wanted?”) with a canned-laughter track – an exquisite touch, and a song Randy Newman would kill to have written, What saves our narrator is – you guessed it – the love of a good woman, and closer ‘I Went To The Store One Day’ finds him finally flirting with happiness, a concept the “aimless, fake drifter” in him always figured was for squares (“For love to find us of all people/I never thought it’d be so simple”).
FATHER JOHN MISTY – ” Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings “
Posted: November 6, 2014 in MUSICTags: Alternative Folk, Father John Misty, Fleet Foxes, Indie
Father John Misty performed the lead track, Bored In The USA on TV this week, off his upcoming Sub Pop effort. Josh Tillman and his twisted mind new album. I Love You, Honeybear is the follow up to 2012′s excellent Fear Fun. Sub Pop will be releasing it to the world on 9th February 2015. Here’s what Josh has to say about the album.
I Love You, Honeybear was recorded all through 2013 to 2014 in Los Angeles with producer Jonathan Wilson, who I also recorded and produced 2012’s Fairly Fun with. There’s a case to be made that it sounds and acts a bit like solo-era John Lennon, Scott Walker, Randy Newman, Harry Nilsson, and Dory Previn, while taking more than a few cues from Woody Allen, Kurt Vonnegut, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Muhammad Ali. It has a decidedly more soulful presence than Fear Fun, due in no small part to the fact that I am truly singing my ass off all over this motherfucker. The album is really characterized by the scope and ambition of the arrangements. Nearly every tune is augmented by something special, be it orchestral strings, a mariachi band, questionable electronic drum solos, ragtime jazz combos, soul singers, or what have you. I’m pretty sure there’s a sitar in there somewhere.
FATHER JOHN MISTY – ” Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings ” and ” I Love You Honeybear ” City of Music Session
Posted: November 2, 2014 in MUSICTags: Alternative, Father John Misty, Fleet Foxes, J Tillman
Singer/songwriter J. Tillman‘s music paints, sadly beautiful portraits of love and life of Nick Drake and the country-influenced of Ryan Adams.Tillman first made a name for himself playing drums in a pair of indie rock bands, Saxon Shore and Stately, while attending college in New York City. In his spare time, however, he began writing material of his own, citing the music of Nick Drake and Pete Seeger, and the writings of Flannery O’Connor, influences. Some of Tillman‘s demos found their way to Damien Jurado, who invited Tillman to join his band for a tour. Tillman played solo sets during several dates on the tour and began distributing CD-R copies of an early collection of tunes called I Will Return. During the tour, he also struck up a friendship with Eric Fisher, who produced another CD-R album,
In 2006, the independent Fargo Records label released Tillman‘s first properly distributed solo album, Minor Works, and Keep Records reissued I Will Return/Long May You Runas a two-disc set the same year. In 2007, Yer Bird Records released Tillman‘s fourth, more elaborately arranged album,Cancer and Delirium. Although his solo work continued to garner critical acclaim, he briefly shifted focus in 2008 by joining Fleet Foxes. The group toured heavily in support of its debut album; meanwhile, Tillman continued working on his own material, releasing Year in the Kingdom in 2009. In 2011, Tillman left Fleet Foxes to concentrate on his many solo projects, adopting the pseudonym Father John Misty for 2012’s Fear Fun, a 12-track collection of new material that infused the harmony-laden hymns of his former band with a patina of Gram Parsonsand Harry Nilsson-informed, Laurel Canyon-inspired neo-psychedelia.
The Fat Angel Sings 