Father John Misty

Father John Misty – Chloë and the Next 20th Century (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 31, 2023 · Comments off

Father John Misty - Chloë and the Next 20th Century (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

‘Chloë and the Next 20th Century’ was written and recorded between August and December 2020 and features arrangements by Drew Erickson. The album sees Tillman and producer/multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Wilson resume their longtime collaboration, as well as Dave Cerminara, returning as engineer and mixer. Basic tracks were recorded at Wilson’s Five Star Studios with strings, brass and woodwinds recorded at United Recordings in a session featuring Dan Higgins and Wayne Bergeron, among others.
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Father John Misty – Pure Comedy (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 30, 2023 · Comments off

Like anything that comes out of the mouth of Father John Misty — the hipster gadfly persona Josh Tillman adopted after leaving the Fleet Foxes in 2012 — it can be difficult to discern whether the title of Pure Comedy is intended sincerely. Father John Misty cherishes his public role as a prankster, a stance that can sometimes seem at odds with his grand artistic ambitions. And, make no mistake about it, Pure Comedy is indeed a very grand record, an old-fashioned major statement designed to evoke memories of classic long-players from the ’70s. Often, its stately march and decorated pianos call to mind early Elton John, suggesting the hazy vistas of Madman Across the Water. This shift toward progressive pop underscores how Father John Misty has streamlined his music since I Love You, Honeybear, whittling away the minor feints toward modern music and stripping away lingering rustic folk influences. He’s now a postmodern troubadour, halfway between a song poet and a baroque craftsman. Where his antecedents (and clear influences) Leonard Cohen and Randy Newman sculpted their music and words, Tillman isn’t quite so restrained. He’s a maximalist, overstuffing his lyrics with florid imagery and letting his songs spill out at lengths up to 13 minutes. From a certain angle, all this can play like an elaborate stunt — particularly when he baits the listener with lines about “bedding Taylor Swift” — but there’s a strong melancholy undercurrent to Pure Comedy that suggests Father John Misty is something more than a jester. All of this can be felt through the music itself — through the melodies and movement, through the arrangement and production — and that, more than the verbal gymnastics, is why Pure Comedy delivers upon much of Father John Misty’s outlandish promises. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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Father John Misty – Off-Key In Hamburg (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 30, 2023 · Comments off

In the key of COVID-19 pandemic, Joshua Tillman, better known as Father John Misty, has released “Off-Key in Hamburg” comprising 18 tracks recorded in August 2019 with the Neue Philarmonie Frankfurt. This latest live album showcases his affecting voice, its melancholy timbre often contrasting the wry humour in his lyrics, and Tillman’s way with melody.

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Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 30, 2023 · Comments off

I Love You, Honeybear was recorded from 2013 to 2014 in Echo Park, Los Angeles. There’s a case to be made that it sounds and acts a bit like Scott Walker, Randy Newman, Harry Nilsson, and Dory Previn. The songs are a narration of my experience falling in love. My ambition was to address the sensuality of fear, the terrifying force of love, the unutterable pleasures of true intimacy, and the destruction of emotional and intellectual prisons with an imprint that is undeniably my own. Blammo.

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Father John Misty – God’s Favorite Customer (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 30, 2023 · Comments off

Scarcely a year after Pure Comedy (2017), Josh Tillman, alias Father John Misty, is already back. While he takes over the production, the former Fleet Foxes drummer finds himself in the studio with his favourite follower: Jonathan Wilson, the Laurel Canyon bard who strives to repopularise the beauty of the classic rock of the seventies. But also Jonathan Rado of Foxygen. With God’s Favorite Customer, Papa John, the son of strict evangelists, brings us thirteen short folk-rock vignettes. Veering from a string of piano ballads (The Palace, The Songwriter) and some straightforward and finely-orchestrated rock (Just Dumb Enough To Try), our songwriter has drawn a straight line from his previous work. It’s sentimentalist, but more serious. – Charlotte Saintoin

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Lana Del Rey, Father John Misty – Buddy’s Rendezvous (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 8, 2022 · Comments off

Father John Misty has shared a snippet of a forthcoming cover by Lana Del Rey of his as-yet-unreleased song ‘Buddy’s Rendezvous’.

The original version of the song will feature on Josh Tillman’s fifth studio album as Father John Misty, ‘Chloë and the Next 20th Century’, which is slated to arrive on April 8 via Sub Pop and Bella Union.

Lana Del Rey’s rendition of ‘Buddy’s Rendezvous’, meanwhile, will appear on an exclusive 7-inch single included with the deluxe vinyl edition of the album. The box set will also include another 7-inch that features Jack Cruz covering album track ‘Kiss Me (I Loved You)’.

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Father John Misty – Chloë and the Next 20th Century (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · May 8, 2022 · Comments off

After what seemed like the end of the story of Father John Misty with God’s Favourite Customer (2018), Josh Tilman returns after four years of radio silence and very vague interviews and press releases… some may be happy, some may not, but such is the way of Father John Misty. After the folk-rock vignettes of God’s Favourite Customer, Misty seems to have circled back to the grandiose old-fashioned style of Pure Comedy (2017), this time with a dash more grace, and a lot more elegance.

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