Blog: State Magazine

Josh Tillman’s eighth solo album (and first as Father John Misty ) comes after some four years behind the kit for Fleet Foxes and is literally dusty with passim regarding down-trodden, drunken misadventure. Not of the Nilsson or MacGowan variety though, more along the lines of John Grant and Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros' Alexander Ebert sitting on a kerb drinking whiskey from a white-label plastic bottle. “Look out Hollywood, here I come” he sings on the album’s opener, ‘Funtimes in Babylon’, but you get the impression his visit there didn’t go to plan. The album meanders between [...]