Release Date: 15/05/26
Pure Comedy, Father John Misty’s third album, is a complex, often-sardonic, and touching meditation on the confounding folly of modern humanity. Father John Misty is the brainchild of singer-songwriter Josh Tillman. The album is described by Tillman as the story of a species born with a half-formed brain, relying on others and inventing meanings to cope with vulnerability and the monotony of existence. Recorded in 2016 at United Studios in Hollywood, it was produced by Father John Misty and Jonathan Wilson, engineered by Trevor Spencer, with orchestral arrangements by Gavin Bryars. Tracklisting: 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, Father John Misty’s third album, is a complex, often-sardonic, and touching meditation on the confounding folly of modern humanity. Father John Misty is the brainchild of singer-songwriter Josh Tillman. The album is described by Tillman as the story of a species born with a half-formed brain, relying on others and inventing meanings to cope with vulnerability and the monotony of existence. Recorded in 2016 at United Studios in Hollywood, it was produced by Father John Misty and Jonathan Wilson, engineered by Trevor Spencer, with orchestral arrangements by Gavin Bryars. Tracklisting: 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