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FATHER JOHN MISTY – ” Welcome to NY “

Posted: July 22, 2016 in MUSIC
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Father John Misty Announces Tour

Father John Misty has expanded his tour behind last year’s I Love You, Honeybear. He’ll play a bunch of dates in North America next spring, followed by a European trek.

05-11 Leeds, England – O2 Academy
05-12 Glasgow, Scotland – O2 Academy
05-13 Manchester, England – Albert Hall
05-14 Gateshead, England – The Sage Gateshead
05-15 Nottingham, England – Rock City
05-17 Bristol, England – Colston Hall
05-18 London, England – The Roundhouse
05-19-20 London, England – The Roundhouse
05-21 Southampton, England – O2 Guildhall

Josh Tillman will also appear on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” on January 14th 2016.

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FATHER JOHN MISTY – ” I Love You Honeybear ” Best Albums of 2015

Posted: July 22, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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There can be no discussion of I Love You, Honeybear—Josh Tillman’s sophomore album under the Father John Misty moniker–without first acknowledging just how problematic the persona appears to be. His ethos (and appeal) is extracted directly from a bit of that hazy Californian mysticism which so shaped the rock n’roll of the mid-70s. Legend has it that prior to the release of 2012’s Fear Fun, a listless Tillman left his home in Seattle, hopped in a van, and drove down the West Coast of the US equipped with ample quantities of existential angst and psychedelic mushrooms. It was at the end of this pilgrimage, in a shack in LA’s Laurel Canyon, that Father John Misty was born. And, just as his origins suggest, he is more archetype than alter-ego. I Love You, Honeybear is drenched in predictable debauchery and misogyny, but just when you think Tillman is method acting or keeping up appearances, he strays toward self-conscious profundity.

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Gone are the days in which the lyrics of white, heterosexual, longhaired pseudo-gurus will go unexamined, and there is no way that Josh Tillman doesn’t recognise this. Father John Misty is too complex to be a pure anachronism. He is constantly toeing the line between frankness and insincerity; Honeybear is rich with sarcasm, flagrant in some places and barely discernable in others. It is impossible to take seriously, but too damn compelling to be dismissed.

The title track is a mid-tempo taste of melancholy Americana, complete with cinematic strings and bittersweet declarations of emotion. Tillman stages a scene featuring a couple deep in love, entirely detached from their surroundings: “I barely know how long a moment is/unless we’re naked getting high on the mattress/while the global market crashes,” he croons over an orchestral crescendo. When the album begins, we find Tillman cripplingly smitten (now-wife Emma is reportedly the muse in question, and the stranger he encounters in the parking lot in ‘I Went To The Store One Day’.) However, Honeybear is largely an out-of-sequence account of his indiscretions and dissatisfactions leading up to their meeting.

Father John Misty performing live in The Current studio

On ‘The Night Josh Tillman Came To Our Apt’, he lays into a nameless woman, enumerating her undesirable (read: assertive) traits. Convinced of her arrogance, he devotes three-and-a-half minute song to slating her while strings swell and a xylophone tinkles in the background. The figure in question embodies a lot of the stereotypes that one might associate with wealthy, Southern Californian women, he claims: “every insufferable convo/features her patiently explaining the cosmos.”

Father John Misty is a hypocrite: a megalomaniac disgusted by self-centredness in the opposite sex. For just a moment, it seems as though he might be placated by a relationship with a worthy woman, but Father John isn’t nearly earnest enough to let love overwhelm him. His dissatisfaction is written all over ‘Nothing Good Ever Happens At The Goddamn Thirsty Crow’, and this time a plaintive acoustic guitar ballad provides the backdrop to a jealous lament. Months on the road leave Father John’s lady (presumably his muse, this time around) vulnerable to the attentions of other men. But who could blame them, apparently “it’s hard to believe that a good-hearted woman/could have a body that’d make your daddy cry.” There is just no pleasing Tillman— if Honeybear teaches us anything, it is that love is far from a cure for the anguish of an angsty white man.

Occasionally, Tillman takes a step back from his own predicament to ponder the hopelessness of 21st Century life. Lead single ‘Bored in the USA’ is an appropriately subdued piano ballad bemoaning hollow, soulless American consumer culture. In an ironic nod to the American Dream, he asks “is this the part where I get all I ever wanted?” Predictably, he is met with debt, subprime loans, and a prescription for antidepressants. On ‘Holy Shit’, Tillman takes to lyrical solipsism: “no one ever really knows you/and life is brief/so I’ve heard/but what’s that gotta do with this black hole in me?” It takes a special kind of narcissism to divorce your singular experience of suffering from the endemic experience of human discontent. No one has told Father John Misty that he isn’t the only person to have spied a flaw in the system.

Ultimately, Tillman utilizes a familiar, but perfectly executed, take on the folk-rock idiom to highlight the tensions within him. He’s a miserable and perma-stoned single man turned uneasy paramour whose act of love is dwarfed by the black hole that is the culture he lives in. You’d think that we might be as tired of dysfunctional heterosexual love narratives as we are of left-wing rockers hating on capitalism. The fact that I Love You, Honeybear is arguably one of the most anticipated albums of 2015 shows that maybe the joke is on us.

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Persona or not, Father John Misty is an unabashed bundle of contradictions. It isn’t worth sitting around trying to piece together what is ironic here and what isn’t–insincerity is part of the package. But maybe it is worth asking yourself why we’re still interested in what Josh Tillman has to say. And maybe, just maybe, it is because some of his contradictions are yours, too–there are plenty of unhappy consumers out there seeking a mythical other as an antidote to their own boredom. Hell, there’s a market for that, it’s called “online dating”. At the end of the day, Tillman manages to acknowledge his own myopia and doesn’t feel the need to rectify it. If that isn’t privilege, I don’t know what is. Granted, Father John Misty is no everyman, but in highlighting his own hypocrisy, he might illuminate others’ along the way.

FATHER JOHN MISTY – ” Holy Shit ” The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Posted: January 15, 2016 in MUSIC
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Father John Misty performs a song off of his latest album “I Love You, Honeybear.”

Staying true to his name, Father John Misty often delivers live performances that transcend the stage and feel like out-of-body religious experiences. His appearance on last night’s installment of Colbert was no different.

Josh Tillman commanded his way through both the subdued and dramatic portions of I Love You, Honeybear highlight “Holy Shit” with grace as well as a conviction that perhaps only a preacher could muster up.
While the studio version uses a swelling orchestral arrangement to signal a shift in the song’s dynamics, here that instance is marked by a pretty epic drum solo, wild, flashing lights and all. Everything changes after that point — you could say it was a true “Holy Shit” kind of moment.

Its been a phenomenal year for FATHER JOHN MISTY. His breakthrough second album, I Love You, Honeybear figured highly in most Best of 2015 lists including being Number 1 in GQ, Loud And Quiet and Drowned In Sound, Number 2 in Shindig and Rough Trade Shops, Number 3 in The Guardian and Sunday Times, 5 in Uncut, 11 in Q and Number16 in NME. To add to these accolades Father John Misty has now been nominated for International Male Solo Artist at the year’s Brit Awards alongside Drake, Justin Bieber, Kendrick Lamar and The Weeknd.

In other news, with his two Roundhouse shows in May having long-since sold-out, Father John Misty recently announced a third and final performance at Camden’s iconic venue on Friday 20th May. Upcoming UK live dates below:

Wednesday 11th May – LEEDS – O2 Academy
Thursday 12th May – GLASGOW – O2 ABC **(SOLD OUT!)**
Friday 13th May – MANCHESTER – Albert Hall **(SOLD OUT!)**
Saturday 14th May – GATESHEAD – The Sage Gateshead **(SOLD OUT!)**
Sunday 15th May – NOTTINGHAM – Rock City
Tuesday 17th May – BRISTOL – Colston Hall
Wednesday 18th May – LONDON – Roundhouse **(SOLD OUT!)**
Thursday 19th May – LONDON – Roundhouse **(SOLD OUT!)**
Friday 20th May – LONDON – Roundhouse
Saturday 21st May – SOUTHAMPTON – O2 Guildhall

Critical acclaim for I Love You, Honeybear, out now on Bella Union:

“I Love You, Honeybear is a masterpiece. An at once personal and existential examination of a love affair and love itself, the album contains melodies other writers would kill for.”
Sunday Times (Album Of The Week)

“Hugely entertaining… Its hard to tell where Joshua Tillman ends and his alias Father John Misty begins – but it doesn’t matter when the songs sound this good.”
The Guardian – 5 Stars ***** (Album Of The Week)

“A revelation… A hugely ambitious, caustically funny album about the redemptive possibilities of love.”
NME – 9/10 (Album Of The Week)

“It wows the listener outright… An album that reaffirms your faith in the transformative powers of love.”
The Observer – 4 Stars **** (Album Of The Week)

“Tillman is one of music’s most arch satirists.”
Time Out – 4 Stars (Album Of The Week)

“A compelling and addictive listen. The gags are good, but the songs are always better.”
Loud And Quiet – 10/10

“For it’s black lyrical humour alone, I Love You, Honeybear would be a winner. The fact that it’s matched to towering songwriting and swirling orchestrations makes it masterful stuff… A provocative star is born.”
Q – 4 Stars ****

“An epic creation which takes its cues from the likes of Harry Nilsson, Dory Previn and John Grant, it belongs to that honourable tradition which sets beautifully orchestrated pop and AOR against brutally honest and sometimes comically profane sentiments, sung with dramatic, edge-of-the-cliff conviction… A truly compelling album.”
Uncut – 8/10

“Essentially an album-length love letter to his new wife, these are grand arrangements in the style of Randy Newman and Harry Nilsson.”
MOJO – 4 Stars ****

“A former Fleet Fox delivers something wondrous: a tart, timely, Broadway-bright boost for the devalued currency of the love song. Sneaking dark lyrics into plush settings in no new trick, but there’s no denying Tillman masters it.”
Independent On Sunday – 4.5/5 *****

“Richly layered and immaculately played, Tillman has a forte for poignant detail as well as some deliciously spicy wit.”
Metro – 4 Stars (Album Of The Week)

“His second album restates his lyrical brilliance… Strings, mariachi trumpets and harmonies work a treat, framing tunes that echo Harry Nilsson and Randy Newman.”
Daily Mail – 5 Stars *****

“FJM mixes tuneful Americana with heavy dollops of ’70s-style balladry. Much of it sounds like Elton John, circa Don’t Shoot Me, with the same blend of witty and powerful lyricism.”
Sunday Express – 5 Stars ***** (Album Of The Week)

“An album that evokes – and stands up to – the likes of Glen Campbell’s Reunion: The Songs Of Jimmy Webb and Gene Clark’s No Other, Tillman has created a sumptuously arranged set of gold-standard singer-songwriterly fare, the FJM guise has allowed Tillman to loosen up and write the most acerbic, carnal and surprisingly lovelorn material of his career.”
Record Collector – 4 Stars (New Album Of The Month)

“This breathtaking album will surely see Father John Misty walk away with all those end of year trophies.”
London In Stereo (Album Of The Month)

“FJM wields a grand echoing production that evokes the decadent 70s pop craftsmanship of Harry Nilsson, while tossing out some of the funniest lines since Dylan’s scornful peak.”
Mail On Sunday – 4 Stars ****

“Rich and rewarding… Slowed-down honky tonk and sumptuous orchestrations in Nothing Good Ever Happens at the Goddamn Thirsty Crow’ are reminiscent of classic Elton John while ‘Bored in the USA’ combines dreamy piano balladry with sardonic lyrics.”
Financial Times – 4 Stars ****

“an album by turns passionate and disillusioned, tender and angry, so cynical it’s repulsive and so openhearted it hurts.”
Pitchfork – 8.8

“I Love You, Honeybear is an exceptional work… A lush string-laden album anchored by a literate turn of phrase that’s by turns romantic, deeply cynical and often incredibly funny.”
Shindig – 4 Stars ****

“With his new Father John Misty record, Tillman is opening up and baring everything.”
DIY – 4 Stars ****

“Rich and absorbing… Brilliant stuff.”
The Sun – 4 Stars ****

“Tillman repeatedly hits the compositional sweet spot… The songs glow with gorgeous, flowing orchestrations and svelte arrangements.”
The Mirror – 4 Stars ****

FATHER JOHN MISTY – ” I Love You Honeybear ” Live at Glastonbury 2015

Posted: December 9, 2015 in MUSIC
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Father John Misty performs “I Love You Honeybear” in the BBC Music Tepee at Glastonbury 2015. Look, we write about Father John Misty a lot. By now you probably know how we feel about him . But 2015 saw Father John Misty somehow bringing his live show to a higher level with his “I Love You, Honeybear” material, shifting gears from stunningly gorgeous on “I Went to the Store One Day” to disaffected and funny as hell on “Bored in the USA” at the drop of a hat.

FATHER JOHN MISTY – ” The Night Josh Tillman Came To Our Apartment “

Posted: September 18, 2015 in MUSIC
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“The Night Josh Tillman Came To Our Apartment” off of the album, ‘I Love You, Honeybear’

This video is partially inspired by the LeBron James quote “It is precisely the superficial differences between people who are otherwise alike that inform the hostilities between them.” Special thanks to my body double Tyler who I had to kiss no fewer than two dozen times and whose breath I can still smell in my mind’s eye.

Father John Misty  off this year’s excellent I Love You, Honeybear. It’s a surreal romance that sees a suave Josh Tillman approaching a bummed-out version of himself at a bar. They hit it off and proceed to snort cocaine, go swimming, and, finally, hook up. (Coincidentally, this is a narrative that Young Thug touched upon earlier this week in his“Best Friend” video). The clip was directed by Drew Pearce, who co-wrote Iron Man 3 and Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.

Pearce said, “It has been an honor to explore the palpable sexual chemistry that exists between Josh Tillman and himself. I hope this video does their enduring love affair justice.”

FATHER JOHN MISTY – ” Chateau Lobby #4 (In C For Two Virgins) ” Glastonbury Park Stage 27th June 2015

Posted: June 28, 2015 in FESTIVALS, MUSIC
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Father John Misty performs Chateau Lobby #4 (In C For Two Virgins) at Glastonbury 2015. Visit the Glastonbury website at http://bbc.co.uk/glastonbury for more videos and photos.

Glastonbury and folk rock go together like bees and honey and there’s no finer practitioner of the genre around today than Father John Misty, aka Josh Tillman. As J. Tillman, he released a slew of celebrated solo records between 2003 and 2010 before becoming Father John Misty and breaking through with 2015’s acclaimed “I Love You, Honeybear”, which includes stand-out track Bored In The USA.

The Maryland-born singer-songwriter played the 6 Music Festival in February this year, as well as a session for Lauren Laverne. A former member of Fleet Foxes, he’ll be more than familiar with Glastonbury – except this time he’s taking the plaudits alone.

 

 

FATHER JOHN MISTY – “I Love You Honeybear ” Best Albums Of 2015

Posted: June 12, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Father John Misty,”I Love You, Honeybear” aka Josh Tillman, has released the video for “I Love You, Honeybear” from this year’s album of the same name. Tillman co-wrote the video with his wife, Emma, and co-directed the video with Grant James, who also worked on two videos from Father John Misty’s 2012 LP, Fear Fun (“This Is Sally Hatchet”, “Funtimes in Babylon”). The video stars Brett Gelman (The Other Guys) and Susan Traylor (Greenberg). Tillman describes it as “a portrayal of an average night in the lives of two EMTs.”
He may sound like he wandered away from an L.A. ashram, but don’t be fooled by the beatific-hippie vibes. There’s a killer songwriter’s instinct beneath all those dreamy Laurel Canyon melodies the man can write a cutting lyric like nobody’s business).

Father John Misty’s “City of Music” session, featuring a performance of the song “I Love You, Honeybear”.
Directed/shot/edited/audio by Trent Waterman

On paper, “I Love You, Honeybear” is a nightmare: Suave yet cripplingly self-aware bearded bohemian millennial falls madly in love, grapples at length with becoming a different kind of walking cliché, and tops it off with an on-the-nose takedown of the American Dream. But what some listeners might register as smug self-indulgence strikes me as one of 2015’s realest and rawest dissertations. Josh Tillman’s misanthropy is far-reaching; he’s an equal-opportunity roaster, sparing no target including himself. His lyrical eviscerations are on-point and often laugh-out-loud funny, and they’re couched in throwback lounge-lizard arrangements far too pretty to be retro kitsch. Plus he sweetens the deal with some truly romantic declarations of love. This album is every bit as smart and beautiful as Tillman believes it is

FATHER JOHN MISTY – ” Secret Show ” at Lightning 100 Nashville

Posted: March 26, 2015 in MUSIC
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They play new music from national and local artists mixed with some of your classic favourites. Father John Misty performed a secret show for some very lucky Lightning 100 listeners. Warning, this recording contains adult content and language.  Father John Misty took requests from the audience, and his set included “I Love You, Honeybear”, “Chateau Lobby #4 (in C for Two Virgins)”, “Only Son of the Ladiesman”, “Holy Shit”, “I’m Writing a Novel”, and “Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings”.

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FATHER JOHN MISTY – ” I Love You Honeybear ” Review From the Needle Drop

Posted: February 15, 2015 in MUSIC
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A Great review from my favourite music blog please check out this guy. I believe this is the first major release from any artist this year please listen and buy this album its a wonderful piece of art and music.

FATHER JOHN MISTY – ” I Went to the Store One Day “

Posted: February 9, 2015 in MUSIC
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Father John Misty has a new album released today titled, “I Love You, Honeybear“, is out now . Today, La Blogothèque has posted a “Take Away Show” with the singer, featuring a performance of “I Went to the Store One Day” in an intimate Paris Café setting.

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