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Cat:BELLA628VX      Barcode:5414939954627

Limited Edition 2LP – Contains a plastic O-Card outer sleeve, fold out lyric poster, hologram tarot card and digital download code.

Pure Comedy sees Tillman at the height of his powers: as a lyricist, and equally so a cultural observer – at times bordering on freakishly prescient. Tillman’s bent critiques, bared humanity and gently warped classic songwriting are all here in equal measure …

Record Label: Bella Union

Format: Album

Genre: Indie & Alternative, Pop

Release Date: 07/04/2017

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Since 2012, Father John Misty, aka Josh Tillman, has unexpectedly emerged as a singular (if not undeniably, idiosyncratic) voice. Whether by virtue of his lyrics, which routinely defy the presumed polarities of wit and empathy; his live performances which may perhaps be described best as “intimately berserk”, or the infuriating line he seems to occupy between canny and total fraud online or in interviews, Father John Misty has cultivated a rare space for himself in the musical landscape – that of a real enigma.

Pure Comedy sees Tillman at the height of these powers: as a lyricist, and equally so a cultural observer – at times bordering on freakishly prescient. Tillman’s bent critiques, bared humanity and gently warped classic songwriting are all here in equal measure. 

Tillman wrote the majority of Pure Comedy throughout 2015 and recorded all the basic tracking and vocals live to tape (in no more than two takes each) at United Studios (fka the legendary Ocean Way Studios, favoured by Frank Sinatra and The Beach Boys) in Los Angeles March 2016.

Pure Comedy was co-produced once again by Josh Tillman and long-time producer Jonathan Wilson; mixed by Tillman, Wilson and Trevor Spencer, and mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering Studios. The album features string, horn and choral arrangements from classical iconoclast Gavin Bryars (Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet, Sinking Of The Titanic), with additional contributions from Nico Muhly and Thomas Bartlet.

Track Listing

Side 1

  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

Side 2

  1. Birdie
  2. Leaving LA

Side 3

  1. A Bigger Paper Bag
  2. When the God of Love Returns There’ll Be Hell To Pay
  3. Smoochie
  4. Two Wildly Different Perspectives
  5. The Memo

Side 4

  1. So I’m Growing Old On Magic Mountain
  2. In Twenty Years or So
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