Father John Misty has announced a new album, ‘Pure Comedy’, as well as sharing a short-film exploring the making of the album, according to Pitchfork.
The album will be released on 7th April via Sub Pop (Bella Union in Europe). We also have a full track list (shown in full below), artwork (again, keep scrolling) and even an album length (75 minutes, for those of you who like value for money in your albums). It was co-produced by Josh Tillman (aka. Father John Misty) and Jonathan Wilson and is the first album by the former Fleet Foxes man since 2015’s ‘I Love You, Honeybear.’
01 – Pure Comedy
02 – Total Entertainment Forever
03 – Things It Would Have Been Helpful to Know Before the Revolution
04 – Ballad of the Dying Man
05 – Birdie
06 – Leaving LA
07 – A Bigger Paper Bag
08 – When the God of Love Returns There’ll Be Hell to Pay
09 – Smoochie
10 – Two Wildly Different Perspectives
11 – The Memo
12 – So I’m Growing Old on Magic Mountain
13 – In Twenty Years or So
The album announcement wasn’t the only goodness to come from the Father today either, Misty also shared with the world a typically irreverent short-film, documenting the making of the album. Co-directed by Tillman and Grant James, the video features all kinds of antics from shirtless painting to a casual drive around an LA on fire. You can check out the video below. We’re still not done with the news though. The album cover was illustrated by Ed Steed of the New Yorker, and like any good cover, will be available in four different versions – all of which are available at once if you buy the deluxe edition of the LP which comes replete with customizable jacket, fold-out poster, holographic tarot card and aluminium and copper coloured vinyl.
All of this comes on top of the release, yesterday, of the title track from the album, ‘Pure Comedy’, again with an accompanying video, this time directed by Matthew Daniel Siskin, but with equally absurd and surreal content. These include John Cena, Kanye, Trump, Pepe the frog, Obama and even death itself. You can check out the video below:
Tillman has three festival appearances planned so far for 2017, on both sides of the Atlantic, including a set at Coachella, as well appearances in Oslo and Bilbao.
