{"id":2965,"date":"2014-11-05T19:33:01","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T00:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?p=2965"},"modified":"2014-11-05T19:33:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T00:33:01","slug":"father-john-misty-bored-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2014\/11\/05\/father-john-misty-bored-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Father John Misty, Bored In the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Father John Misty<\/a> (Josh Tillman), formerly of Fleet Foxes, started his solo career two years ago with Fear Fun<\/i>. With it he positioned himself as a kind of post-modern Hunter S. Thompson, writing a doomed love story while high on mushrooms, self-loathing and irony. He publicly mocked critics who panned it, and audiences at his shows were often left wondering whether they were in on the joke, or just the punchline. <\/p>\n

I liked it – I still do – but I also once described it as “Pavarotti singing nursery rhymes.” <\/p>\n

Now, after a period of reflection and reconstruction – he put out a perfume, came unscrewed, got married, and pulled himself together, more or less in that order – he’s back with his second record, to be called I Love You, Honeybear,<\/i> due out in February 2015.<\/p>\n

Exterior signs suggest his puckish nature is undimmed at the core; the link text for his tour schedule is “I’m Coming to Your Town\/Bring Your iPhone” and his Twitter reads like horse_ebooks:<\/p>\n

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Your Mom really was awesome if she packed Gushers in your lunchbox. Don't forget to send good luck messages to your favorite Olympians!<\/p>\n

— AIKIKO – FJM (@fatherjohnmisty) January 22, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n