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Pure Comedy
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Father John Misty
Label
Sub Pop Records
Catalogue Number
SP1200
Release Date
7 aprile 2017

Pure Comedy, Father John Misty’s third album, is a complex, often-sardonic, and, equally often, touching meditation on the confounding folly of modern humanity. Father John Misty is the brainchild of singer-songwriter Josh Tillman. Tillman has released two widely acclaimed albums – Fear Fun (2012) and I Love You, Honeybear (2015) – and the recent “Real Love Baby” single as Father John Misty, and recently contributed to songs by Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, and Kid Cudi.

While we could say a lot about Pure Comedy – including that it is a bold, important album in the tradition of American songwriting greats like Harry Nilsson, Randy Newman, and Leonard Cohen – we think it’s best to let its creator describe it himself. Take it away, Mr. Tillman:

Pure Comedy is the story of a species born with a half-formed brain. The species’ only hope for survival, finding itself on a cruel, unpredictable rock surrounded by other species who seem far more adept at this whole thing (and to whom they are delicious), is the reliance on other, slightly older, half-formed brains. This reliance takes on a few different names as their story unfolds, like “love,” “culture,” “family,” etc. Over time, and as their brains prove to be remarkably good at inventing meaning where there is none, the species becomes the purveyor of increasingly bizarre and sophisticated ironies. These ironies are designed to help cope with the species’ loathsome vulnerability and to try and reconcile how disproportionate their imagination is to the monotony of their existence.

Something like that.

Pure Comedy was recorded in 2016 at the legendary United Studios (Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Beck) in Hollywood, CA. It was produced by Father John Misty and Jonathan Wilson, with engineering by Misty’s longtime sound-person Trevor Spencer and orchestral arrangements by renowned composer/double-bassist Gavin Bryars (known for extensive solo work, and work with Brian Eno, Tom Waits, Derek Bailey).

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  1. 1 Pure Comedy 6:23 Acquista

    Pure Comedy

  2. 2 Total Entertainment Forever 2:53 Acquista

    Total Entertainment Forever

  3. 3 Things It Would Have Been Helpful to Know Before the Revolution 4:18 Acquista

    Things It Would Have Been Helpful to Know Before the Revolution

  4. 4 Ballad of the Dying Man 4:50 Acquista

    Ballad of the Dying Man

  5. 5 Birdie 5:19 Acquista

    Birdie

  6. 6 Leaving LA 13:11 Acquista

    Leaving LA

  7. 7 A Bigger Paper Bag 4:41 Acquista

    A Bigger Paper Bag

  8. 8 When the God of Love Returns There'll Be Hell to Pay 4:04 Acquista

    When the God of Love Returns There'll Be Hell to Pay

  9. 9 Smoochie 3:45 Acquista

    Smoochie

  10. 10 Two Wildly Different Perspectives 3:12 Acquista

    Two Wildly Different Perspectives

  11. 11 The Memo 5:16 Acquista

    The Memo

  12. 12 So I'm Growing Old on Magic Mountain 9:58 Acquista

    So I'm Growing Old on Magic Mountain

  13. 13 In Twenty Years or So 6:27 Acquista

    In Twenty Years or So

Father John Misty

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