Harmonic Presents
FATHER JOHN MISTY
Vicar Street
Saturday October 24th
Tickets on sale Friday Feb 13th @9am priced €25 (incl booking) from www.ticketmaster.ie & outlets nationwide
With this month’s Whelan’s show sold out in a couple of days we are pleased to announce an October date in Vicar Street to celebrate the release of the utterly brilliant new album I Love You, Honeybear from Father John Misty on the Bella Union label.
The album is already receiving rave reviews.
“a hugely ambitious, caustically funny album about the redemptive possibilities of love, and being heartily sick of your own bullshit.” NME 9/10
“For its black lyrical humour alone, I Love You, Honeybear would be a winner. The fact that it's matched to towering songwriting makes it masterful stuff.” Q Magazine****
“bristles with richness and bespoke detail.” – UNCUT ****
Father John Misty AKA former Fleet Foxes drummer Josh Tillman preceded the album release with a number of unusual and brilliant live appearances including a show-stopping performance of “Bored in the USA” on David Letterman’s Late Show with full-monty strings and an impromptu stripped-down karaoke performance for the employees of Spotify’s New York office.
‘Bored in the USA’ David Letterman Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIFrG_6fySg
‘Honeybear, I Love You’ live at Spotify https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5_6EUJNjCQ
‘Bored in the USA’ live at Spotify https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dMksTHxYA0
In another wickedly funny twist, Tillman launch the album himself with low-quality own parody streaming site http://www.fatherjohnmisty.com/sap/
“I Love You, Honeybear was recorded intermittently from 2013 to 2014 in Echo Park, Los Angeles and produced with Jonathan Wilson, who I also recorded and produced 2012’s Fairly Fun with.
There’s a case to be made that it sounds and acts a bit like Scott Walker, Randy Newman, Harry Nilsson, and Dory Previn. Blammo.
The songs are a narration of my experience falling in love, which means different things to different people, but which I found incredibly inspiring, personally and creatively. My personal mandate for the writing herein was to claim the experience for myself without resorting to a multitude of clichés. I believe I have addressed the sensuality of fear, the terrifying force of love, the unutterable pleasures of true intimacy, and the destruction of emotional and intellectual prisons with an imprint that is undeniably my own. Blammo.
This is a fairly experimental record, in that, I “experimented” with several different approaches for each song (which is part of why it took so long to record) even though the arrangements and styling are fairly classic. Taking a larger producer role this time around gave me license to indulge no small degree of ambivalence and uncertainty. This material demanded from me a new way of being made, and it took a lot of time before that revealed itself. I believe we found a way to make something that is meticulous but natural, dense but still sounds spacious. Mostly I had to overcome the temptation to think that the method by which the last record was made would suffice this time around too.
Blammo.”
www.fatherjohnmisty.com
www.aikenpromotions.com
FATHER JOHN MISTY
Vicar Street
Saturday October 24th
Tickets on sale Friday Feb 13th @9am priced €25 (incl booking) from www.ticketmaster.ie & outlets nationwide
With this month’s Whelan’s show sold out in a couple of days we are pleased to announce an October date in Vicar Street to celebrate the release of the utterly brilliant new album I Love You, Honeybear from Father John Misty on the Bella Union label.
The album is already receiving rave reviews.
“a hugely ambitious, caustically funny album about the redemptive possibilities of love, and being heartily sick of your own bullshit.” NME 9/10
“For its black lyrical humour alone, I Love You, Honeybear would be a winner. The fact that it's matched to towering songwriting makes it masterful stuff.” Q Magazine****
“bristles with richness and bespoke detail.” – UNCUT ****
Father John Misty AKA former Fleet Foxes drummer Josh Tillman preceded the album release with a number of unusual and brilliant live appearances including a show-stopping performance of “Bored in the USA” on David Letterman’s Late Show with full-monty strings and an impromptu stripped-down karaoke performance for the employees of Spotify’s New York office.
‘Bored in the USA’ David Letterman Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIFrG_6fySg
‘Honeybear, I Love You’ live at Spotify https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5_6EUJNjCQ
‘Bored in the USA’ live at Spotify https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dMksTHxYA0
In another wickedly funny twist, Tillman launch the album himself with low-quality own parody streaming site http://www.fatherjohnmisty.com/sap/
“I Love You, Honeybear was recorded intermittently from 2013 to 2014 in Echo Park, Los Angeles and produced with Jonathan Wilson, who I also recorded and produced 2012’s Fairly Fun with.
There’s a case to be made that it sounds and acts a bit like Scott Walker, Randy Newman, Harry Nilsson, and Dory Previn. Blammo.
The songs are a narration of my experience falling in love, which means different things to different people, but which I found incredibly inspiring, personally and creatively. My personal mandate for the writing herein was to claim the experience for myself without resorting to a multitude of clichés. I believe I have addressed the sensuality of fear, the terrifying force of love, the unutterable pleasures of true intimacy, and the destruction of emotional and intellectual prisons with an imprint that is undeniably my own. Blammo.
This is a fairly experimental record, in that, I “experimented” with several different approaches for each song (which is part of why it took so long to record) even though the arrangements and styling are fairly classic. Taking a larger producer role this time around gave me license to indulge no small degree of ambivalence and uncertainty. This material demanded from me a new way of being made, and it took a lot of time before that revealed itself. I believe we found a way to make something that is meticulous but natural, dense but still sounds spacious. Mostly I had to overcome the temptation to think that the method by which the last record was made would suffice this time around too.
Blammo.”
www.fatherjohnmisty.com
www.aikenpromotions.com
