Father John Misty
"Pure Comedy" -
Tracklist (13)
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Pure Comedy
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Total Entertainment Forever
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Things It Would Have Been Helpful To Know Before The Revolution
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Ballad Of The Dying Man
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Birdie
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Leaving LA
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A Bigger Paper Bag
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When The God Of Love Returns There'll Be Hell To Pay
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Smoochie
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Two Wildly Different Perspectives
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The Memo
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So I'm Growing Old On Magic Mountain
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In Twenty Years Or So
Details
Josh Tillman’s third album as Father John Misty is a wry and passionate complaint against nearly everything under the sun: Politics, religion, entertainment, war—even Father John Misty can’t escape Father John Misty’s gimlet eye. But even the wordiest, most cynically self-aware songs here (“Leaving L.A.,” “When the God of Love Returns There’ll Be Hell to Pay”) are executed with angelic beauty, a contrast that puts Tillman in a league with spiritual predecessors like Randy Newman or Harry Nilsson. A performer as savvy as Tillman knows you can’t sell the apocalypse without making it sound pretty.
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