Father John Misty – Fear Fun
This album is not that far from yesterday’s entry regarding Matthew E. White and it has me nearly as excited. This has been a great week for somnolent navel pondering beard rock.
The Wall Street Journal’s Jim Fusilli offhanded wrote in a recent article: “…Father John Misty, whose debut disc, ‘Fear Fun,’ is one of the year’s best albums…” Fusilli has very reliable taste so I had to check it out.
Well this is very well crafted album. Although the big PR back-story is that FJM’s Joshua Tillman spent time in the Fleet Foxes, this is not the Fleet Foxes redux. However a Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses or My Morning Jacket fan would dig this. It is a mix of folk rock, beatlesque, beard rock, Jeff Buckley and Gram Parsons.
There is a nice bio on FJM’s label SubPop. Here is a stream of the album if you want to check it out:
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The most encouraging thing about all this new music you’re exposing CB too is that there are still people making great new music. Thanks man.