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Father John Misty – I love you, Honeybear (2015)


Hello guys! I hope you had a good week and you are ready for some new music for your ears! This week I’ve got acquainted with a very unique music from Father John Misty. My colleague from work suggested to check his work and album I love you, Honeybear quickly jumped on my speakers. As soon as I started to play the title song I was enjoying it.
Father John Misty is a pseudonym of Josh Tillman. This 38 year-old musician/producer has started his career in 2004 and since then he’s been working with many artist across whole USA. The album we talk about today is a second under Father John Misty moniker. All song are very approachable and are combination of folk, rock and electronic music. Many tunes could be without an effort on top of many charts, not only in the United States. You can’t say a bad word about level of production and craftsmanship of this album. All beats sound crispy, guitars are warm and sloted perfectly with other instruments. Josh Tilman’s vocal is warm and easily memorable. What I especially liked is that he is aware about the style he chose and he knows what need to be done to perfectly fill the genre he presents. All swinging back vocals and additional female vocals create a dreamy and lullaby style. What is important and most authentic about this record is a lyric side of Father John Misty. And if I had to sum it up in one world I would use: peculiar. Going back and forth with lyrics from the album I can easily say that I’ve never come across anyone who was more authentic and out of mainstream. Just to give a couple of examples of John Misty unique writing: “You're bent over the altar and the neighbours are complaining”, “I wanna take you in the kitchen Lift up your wedding dress someone was probably murdered in”, “Knowing just what people wanna hear Binging on unearned attention” or “Say, do you wanna get married? And put an end to our endless progressive tendency to scorn provincial concepts like your dowry”. At first I wanted to make the most of sense I could only get but my friend (the one who suggested this artist) looked at me with eyes of person who see the struggle and know you can’t win and said that I should just enjoy it. So I did it that way. And as sometimes I just want to get back to try understand at least a bit but after 30 seconds I got back to square one: the one that I can just swim with his music and without thinking savour myself with soft sound of I love you, Honeybear.
Conclusion: I can say that Father John Misty surprised me. It was nothing I was expecting before I heard a one note from him. And I see it as a plus. It’s not an easy task to feel fresh and intriguing these days but this album helped me to understand that there is still a place for a very original artists that walk with their own paths. It was a fantastic experience and I hope more and more original content (with sounds or lyrics) I will be able to discover and give a positive review!
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Location: Edinburgh, UK

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  1. Anonymous19 August 2019 at 13:26

    That's some crazy lyrics but music is so nice to listen to!

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