Josh Tillman, aka Father John Misty, has released five albums in the last decade—and each one is an expansion of and challenge to his indie-folk instrumental palette. From the stark rock/folk contrasts of Fear Fun’s ballads and anthems to the mariachi strains of I Love You, Honeybear’s love notes to the wry commentary and grand orchestrations of Pure Comedy and God’s Favorite Customer, Tillman has a penchant for pairing his articulate internal monologue with arrangements that have only grown more eclectic and elaborate. Chloë and the Next 20th Century builds on all of the above—the micro-symphonies, the inventive percussion, the swift shift from dusty country-and-western nostalgia to timeless dirges plunked out on a dive-bar piano.