Release Date: 27/03/26
Pure Comedy is Father John Misty’s third album—a complex, sardonic yet tender meditation on the follies of modern life from singer-songwriter Josh Tillman. Steeped in the tradition of American songwriting greats, it balances wit, grandeur, and vulnerability. Recorded at Hollywood’s United Studios, it was co-produced by Father John Misty and Jonathan Wilson, engineered by Trevor Spencer, with orchestral arrangements by composer Gavin Bryars. Tracklist: 1. Pure Comedy 2. Total Entertainment Forever 3. Things It Would Have Been Helpful to Know Before the Revolution 4. Ballad of the Dying Man 5. Birdie 6. Leaving LA 7. A Bigger Paper Bag 8. When the God of Love Returns There'll Be Hell to Pay 9. Smoochie 10. Two Wildly Different Perspectives 11. The Memo 12. So I'm Growing Old on Magic Mountain 13. In Twenty Years or So
Pure Comedy is Father John Misty’s third album—a complex, sardonic yet tender meditation on the follies of modern life from singer-songwriter Josh Tillman. Steeped in the tradition of American songwriting greats, it balances wit, grandeur, and vulnerability. Recorded at Hollywood’s United Studios, it was co-produced by Father John Misty and Jonathan Wilson, engineered by Trevor Spencer, with orchestral arrangements by composer Gavin Bryars. Tracklist: 1. Pure Comedy 2. Total Entertainment Forever 3. Things It Would Have Been Helpful to Know Before the Revolution 4. Ballad of the Dying Man 5. Birdie 6. Leaving LA 7. A Bigger Paper Bag 8. When the God of Love Returns There'll Be Hell to Pay 9. Smoochie 10. Two Wildly Different Perspectives 11. The Memo 12. So I'm Growing Old on Magic Mountain 13. In Twenty Years or So