PURE COMEDY

Double vinyl LP pressing including digital download. 2017 release. Pure Comedy, Father John MistyAEs third album, is a complex, often-sardonic, and, equally often, touching meditation on the confounding folly of modern humanity. Father John Misty is the brainchild of singer-songwriter Josh Tillman. Tillman has released two widely acclaimed albums u Fear Fun (2012) and I Love You, Honeybear (2015) u and the recent oReal Love Babyo single as Father John Misty, and recently contributed to songs by BeyoncU, Lady Gaga, and Kid Cudi. While we could say a lot about Pure Comedy u including that it is a bold, important album in the tradition of American songwriting greats like Harry Nilsson, Randy Newman, and Leonard Cohen u we think itAEs best to let its creator describe it himself. Take it away, Mr. Tillman: oPure Comedy is the story of a species born with a half-formed brain. The speciesAE only hope for survival, 'nding itself on a cruel, unpredictable rock surrounded by other species who seem far more adept at this whole thing (and to whom they are delicious), is the reliance on other, slightly older, half-formed brains. This reliance takes on a few different names as their story unfolds, like olove,o oculture,o ofamily,o etc. Over time, and as their brains prove to be remarkably good at inventing meaning where there is none, the species becomes the purveyor of increasingly bizarre and sophisticated ironies. These ironies are designed to help cope with the speciesAE loathsome vulnerability and to try and reconcile how disproportionate their imagination is to the monotony of their existence. Something like thato. Pure Comedy was recorded in 2016 at the legendary United Studios (Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Beck) in Hollywood, CA. It was produced by Father John Misty and Jonathan Wilson, with engineering by MistyAEs longtime sound-person Trevor Spencer and orchestral arrangements by renowned composer/double-bassist Gavin Bryars (known for extensive solo work, and work with Brian Eno, Tom Waits, Derek Bailey).