I Love You, Honeybear, by FATHER JOHN MISTY

I Love You, Honeybear

by FATHER JOHN MISTY

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a_foolish_flight I started seriously re-listening to this album at a point in my life where I both very much needed it and needed to listen to anything other than it. I know that doesn't make a lot of sense, but ultimately this will forever be one of my favorite albums, and one that means a great deal to me. Favorite track: I Love You, Honeybear.

James Loves You The final four tracks of this album form one of the strongest four-track-runs on an album I think I've ever heard. Favorite track: Holy Shit.

The_Coffee_Wizard A collection of absolutely soul crushing jams Favorite track: Bored In The USA.

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1.	I Love You, Honeybear 04:38 video	buy track
2.	Chateau Lobby #4 (in C for Two Virgins) 02:51 video	buy track
3.	True Affection 03:56	buy track
4.	The Night Josh Tillman Came To Our Apt. 03:36 video	buy track
5.	When You're Smiling And Astride Me 04:33	buy track
6.	Nothing Good Ever Happens At The Goddamn Thirsty Crow 04:34	buy track
7.	Strange Encounter 04:19	buy track
8.	The Ideal Husband 03:35	buy track
9.	Bored In The USA 04:22	buy track
10.	Holy Shit 04:01	buy track
11.	I Went To The Store One Day 04:23	buy track

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“I Love You, Honeybear is a concept album about a guy named Josh Tillman who spends quite a bit of time banging his head against walls, cultivating weak ties with strangers and generally avoiding intimacy at all costs. This all serves to fuel a version of himself that his self-loathing narcissism can deal with. We see him engaging in all manner of regrettable behavior.

“In a parking lot somewhere he meets Emma, who inspires in him a vision of a life wherein being truly seen is not synonymous with shame, but possibly true liberation and sublime, unfettered creativity. These ambitions are initially thwarted as jealousy, self-destruction and other charming human character traits emerge. Josh Tillman confesses as much all throughout.

“The album progresses, sometimes chronologically, sometimes not, between two polarities: the first of which is the belief that the best love can be is finding someone who is miserable in the same way you are and the end point being that love isn’t for anyone who isn’t interested in finding a companion to undertake total transformation with. I won’t give away the ending, but sex, violence, profanity and excavations of the male psyche abound.

“My ambition, aside from making an indulgent, soulful, and epic sound worthy of the subject matter, was to address the sensuality of fear, the terrifying force of love, the unutterable pleasures of true intimacy, and the destruction of emotional and intellectual prisons in my own voice. Blammo.

“This material demanded a new way of being made, and it took a lot of time before the process revealed itself. The massive, deranged shmaltz I heard in my head, and knew had to be the sound of this record, originated a few years ago while Emma and I were hallucinating in Joshua Tree; the same week I wrote the title track. I chased that sound for the entire year and half we were recording. The means by which it was achieved bore a striking resemblance to the travails, abandon and transformation of learning how to love and be loved; see and be seen. There: I said it. Blammo.” -Josh Tillman (A.K.A. Father John Misty)

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released February 10, 2015

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FATHER JOHN MISTY Los Angeles, California

New album 'Mahashmashana' out now.

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Sep 12

Sidney B. Cushing Memorial Amphitheatre

Mill Valley, CA
Sep 12

Mountain Theater

Mill Valley, CA
Sep 24

Kentucky State Fair & Exposition Center

Louisville, KY
Sep 25

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Columbia, MD

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