Father John Misty

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Just One Man’s Opinion: The 25 Best of the 2010’s

Preamble In 2009, I thought my listening habits would just continue to stroll into the 2010’s in the same manner. I was neck deep in a world of Indie Rock, with a peppering of classic Blues, Jazz, and R&B albums – basically to maintain some appearance of balance. Real Estate had released their eponymous debut album, Grizzly Bear had dropped the powerful and immersive Veckatimest record, and Animal Collective was making Electronic Indie music mainstream with Merriweather Post Pavilion. There...

Father John Misty is the James Joyce of Music

Why do we hold onto nursery rhymes? Why do we remember the fables of our childhood, or absorb the parables of old, or embrace the old wives tales that we somehow take at face value? I believe we embrace them because they are ultimately understood in the simplest of ways , as the core of the story relates to being a human, or in other words, the way the story always dissolves into pure humanity.  We disguise our greatest lessons in parable and allegory, yet we...