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Release Info
Artist: father john misty
Album: fear fun
Genre: indie
Label: Sub Pop Records
Encoder: lame 3.98
Quality: 320 / 44.1/ full stereo
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Release Notes
When discussing Father John Misty, Tillman paraphrases Philip Roth: Its all of me and none of me, if you cant see that, you wont get it. What I call it is totally arbitrary, but I like the name. Youve got to have a name. I never got to choose mine.”
He goes on, People who make records are afforded this assumption by the culture that their music is coming from an exclusively personal place, but more often than not what you hear are actually the affectations of an alter-ego or a cartoon of an emotionally heightened persona, says Josh Tillman, who has been recording/releasing solo albums since 2003 and who recently left Seattles Fleet Foxes after playing drums from 2008-2011. That kind of emotional quotient isnt sustainable if your concern is portraying a human-being made up of more than just chest-beating pathos. I see a lot of rampant, sexless, male-fantasy everywhere in the music around me. I didnt want any alter-egos, any vagaries, fantasy, escapism, any over-wrought sentimentality. I like humor and sex and mischief. So when you think about it, its kind of mischievous to write about yourself in a plain-spoken, kind of explicitly obvious way and call it something like Misty. I mean, I may as well have called it Steve.
Musically, Fear Fun consists of such disparate elements as Waylon Jennings, Harry Nilsson, Arthur Russell, All Things Must Pass, and Physical Graffiti, often within the same song. Tillmans voice has never been better and often sounds like Roy Orbison, The Caruso of Rock, at his most joyous, while the music maintains a dark, mysterious and yet conversely playful, almost Dionysian quality. Lyrically, his absurdist fever dreams of pain and pleasure elicit, in equal measures, the blunt descriptive power of Bukowski or Brautigan, the hedonist-philosophy of Oscar Wilde and the dried-out wit of Loudon Wainwright III.
The album began gestating during what Tillman describes as an immobilizing period of depression, in his former Seattle home. Songwriting for me had always only been interesting and necessary because I saw it as this vehicle for truth, but I had this realization that all I had really done with it was lick my wounds for years and years, and become more and more isolated from people and experiences. I dont even like wound-licking music, I want to listen to someone rip their arm off and beat themselves with it. I dont believe that until now Ive ever put anything at risk in my music. I was hell-bent on putting my preciousness at stake in order to find something worth singing about.
He continues, “I lost all interest in writing music, or identifying as a songwriter. I got into my van with enough mushrooms to choke a horse and started driving down the coast with nowhere to go. After a few weeks, I was writing a novel, which is where I finally found my narrative voice. The voice that is actually useful.
It was a while before that voice started manifesting in a musical way, but once I settled in the Laurel Canyon spider-shack where Im living now, I spent months demoing all these weird-ass songs about weird-ass experiences almost in real-time, and kind of had this musical Oh-there-I-am moment, identical to how I felt when I was writing the book. It was unbelievably liberating. I knew there was never any going back to the place I was writing from before, which was a huge relief. The monkey got banished off my back.
Tillman brought the demos to LA producer/songwriter/pal Jonathan Wilson, and in February 2011 began recording at his home-studio in Echo Park. “Initially, the idea was to just kind of recreate the demos with me playing everything, since they were pretty fleshed out and sounded cool, but a place like LA affords you a different wealth of talent, potential, etc than just about anywhere else. I realized what was possible between Jonathans abilities, and the caliber of musicians that are just hanging around LA, pretty quickly. People were coming in and out of the studio all day sometimes, and other days, it would just be Jonathan and I holed up, getting stoned, and doing everything.
I was honest with myself about what music actually excites my joy-glands when I was considering the arrangements and instrumentation, says Tillman. As opposed to whats been enjoyable to me in the past namely, alienating people or making choices based on what I think people wont like or understand. Pretty narcissistic stuff.
When asked about Laurel Canyon, where he eventually ended up living in the aforementioned tree-house with a family of spiders, Tillman says, My attitude about it all is pretty explicit in the record. Given my fairly adversarial personal attitude about the music and aesthetic that comes from that place, its kind of a huge joke that I live in a former hippie-fantasy land. I have a really morbid sense of humor.
Phil Ek (who everyone knows has worked with Built To Spill, Modest Mouse, Band of Horses, Fleet Foxes) heard the rough versions of the album in May 2011 and offered his services to mix. Phil and I have known each other for a while by virtue of Fleet Foxes, so he was familiar with my music, but we had never discussed working together. I think he immediately recognized the shift in my writing and singing from a producer and friends standpoint. His excitement is really evident in mixes, I think.
Fear Fun is available May 1, 2012 from Sub Pop and Bella Union, in the US and UK/EU respectively.
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Track List
01.funtimes in babylon 03:40
02.nancy from now on 03:54
03.hollywood forever cemetery sings 03:11
04.i’m writing a novel 03:35
05.o i long to feel your arms around me 02:24
06.misty’s nightmares 1 & 2 03:13
07.only son of the ladiesman 04:09
08.this is sally hatchet 03:58
09.well, you can do it without me 02:43
10.now i’m learning to love the war 04:17
11.tee pees 1-12 03:17
12.everyman needs a companion 05:20
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43:41 min