Editors’ Notes Josh Tillman’s third album as Father John Misty is a wry and passionate complaint against nearly everything under the sun: Politics, religion, entertainment, war—even Father John Misty can’t escape Father John Misty’s gimlet eye. But even the wordiest, most cynically self-aware songs here (“Leaving L.A.,” “When the God of Love Returns There’ll Be Hell to Pay”) are executed with angelic beauty, a contrast that puts Tillman in a league with spiritual predecessors like Randy Newman or Harry Nilsson. A performer as savvy as Tillman knows you can’t sell the apocalypse without making it sound pretty.
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Pure Comedy
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6:23
Total Entertainment Forever
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2:53
Things It Would Have Been Helpful to Know Before the Revolution
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4:18
Ballad of the Dying Man
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4:50
Birdie
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5:19
Leaving LA
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13:11
A Bigger Paper Bag
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4:41
When the God of Love Returns There'll Be Hell to Pay
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4:04
Smoochie
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3:45
Two Wildly Different Perspectives
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3:12
The Memo
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5:16
So I'm Growing Old on Magic Mountain
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9:58
In Twenty Years or So
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6:27