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But I’ll settle just to be able

To be chased around

One more once around

Then baby put the knife back down

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J. Tillman (Father John Misty) - A Seat at the Table

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"Three Sisters" by J. Tillman, from Singing Ax

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Father John Misty

Under the name “Father John Misty”, Joshua Tillman has now released the album Fear Fun. Tillman, a former member of the Fleet Foxes, has released brilliant solo albums since 2003 including “Singing Ax”, “Year in the Kingdom” and “Vacilando Territory Blues”.

On this new moniker Tillman says in an article by Sub Pop Records “People who make records are afforded this assumption by the culture that their music is coming from an exclusively personal place, but more often than not what you hear an emotionally heightened persona”. He continues saying “that kind of emotional quotient isn’t sustainable if your concern is portraying a human … I see a lot of rampant, sexless, male-fantasy everywhere in the music around me. I didn’t want any alter-egos, any vagaries, fantasy, escapism, any overwrought sentimentality. I like humor and sex and mischief. So when you think about it, it’s kind of mischievous to write about yourself in plain-spoken, kind of explicitly obvious way to call it something like ‘Misty’. I mean, I may as well have called it ‘Steve’”. Tillman started writing Fear Fun under what he described as an “immobilizing period of depression” when he realized his song writing in the past was not as he wished a “vehicle of truth”, but rather “wound licking music”.

He lost all interest in music and got into his van with enough mushrooms to choke a horse and started driving down the coast with nowhere to go. He started writing a novel, settled in his current home in the “Laurel Canyon spider-shack” and used that narrative voice to write new songs, knowing that he would never go back to that “wound licking “music. 

Fear Fun is full of songs like “I’m writing a novel” and “Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings” that are just inherently folk. Organic voices and chords, you can hear the grit in the guitar and Tillman’s all present voice. It is full of songs that sound real and like a place we’ve all forgotten. Let’s remember with Misty.

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