Father John Misty drops new album 'God's Favorite Customer': Stream
Father John Misty has just dropped 'God’s Favorite Customer', his fourth album since indie-folk rocker Josh Tillman began releasing music under that stage name. The album comes with a sense of urgency as it sees a release just a year after the highly acclaimed 'Pure Comedy'.
'God's Favorite Customer' is a stripped-down affair; at 39 minutes, it’s almost half the length of 'Pure Comedy'. Produced by a team including longtime collaborator Jonathan Wilson, Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado, Natalie Mering (Weyes Blood) and The Haxan Cloak, the album finds Misty at his most introspective.
The album has already started gathering some rave reviews. Pitchfork promptly added it to its Best New Album section, calling it an album where Tillman "exhibits a new sense of empathy and vulnerability while losing none of his wit." The Guardian has rated the album four stars out of five and Consequence of Sound rates it a respectable 'B' claiming that the album is Misty's "most succinct effort yet". You can stream the full album below.
By Tillman’s own admission, 'God' Favorite Customer' is “less pretentious” than his past works. His more honest lyricism came during a six-week period during which his “life blew up” and he nearly lost the woman who was the inspiration behind his sophomore solo LP, I Love You, Honeybear.
It was a low point for Tillman, as he was living in a hotel and binging on bad habits, but it looks like he's channeled those emotions with deft creativity.
Late last year, Tillman talked to Uncut about the process of writing the new record: “I was living in a hotel for two months. It’s kind of about… yeah… misadventure. The words were just pouring out of me. It’s really rooted in something that happened last year that was… well, my life blew up. I think the music essentially serves the purpose of making the painful and the isolating less painful and less isolating. But in short, it’s a heartache album."
Ahead of the album's release, we’ve been privy the singles 'Mr. Tillman,' and 'Please Don’t Die,' both of which were accompanied with music videos; and the simultaneously released 'Disappointing Diamonds Are the Rarest of Them All' and 'Just Dumb Enough to Try.'
Misty is currently on tour supporting the release, with festival appearances at Mountain Jam, Forecastle, Panorama, and Outside Lands on the docket.
Father John Misty 2018 Tour Dates:
05/11 – Bloomington, IN @ Granfalloon: A Kurt Vonnegut Gathering! at Upland Brewing Company (solo show)
05/25 – Belfast, IE @ BBC Music The Biggest Weekend
05/26 – Halifax, UK @ The Piece Hall
05/27 – London, UK @ All Points East Festival
05/28 – Dublin, IE @ Vicar Street
05/29 – Dublin, IE @ Vicar Street
05/30 – Dublin, IE @ Vicar Street
06/01 – Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound Festival
06/02 – Nimes, FR @ This is Not A Love Song Festival
06/03 – Paris, FR @ We Love Green Festival
06/05 – Warsaw, PL @ Palladium
06/07 – Porto, PT @ NOS Primavera Sound Festival
06/08 – Aarhus, DK @ NorthSide Festival
06/10 – Hilvarenbeek, NL @ Best Kept Secret Festival
06/12 – Oslo, NO @ Sentrum Scene
06/14 – Bergen, NO @ Bergenfest
06/15-17 – Hunter, NY @ Mountain Jam
06/16 – Minneapolis, MN @ Rock The Garden Festival! at Walker Art Center
06/24 – Hollywood, CA @ Hollywood Bowl
07/13 – Louisville, KY @ Forecastle Festival
07/20 – Jacksonville, OR @ Britt Pavilion
07/21 – Troutdale, OR @ Edgefield Amphitheatre
07/22 – Seattle, WA @ Capitol Hill Block Party
07/27 – New York, NY @ Panorama Music & Arts Festival
07/28 – Newport, RI @ Jane Pickens Theater (Newport Folk Festival Aftershow)
07/29 – Portland, ME @ Thompson’s Point
08/01 – Raleigh, NC @ North Carolina Museum of Art Park Theater
08/02 – Washington, DC @ The Anthem
08/03 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE
08/04 – Toronto, ON @ Historic Fort York & Garrison Commons
08/10-11 – San Francisco, CA @ Outside Lands Festival
08/12 – Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory Concert House
08/13 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Union
08/15 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre
08/17 – Kansas City, MO @ Uptown Theater
08/18 – Omaha, NE @ Maha Music Festival
09/09 – Vancouver, BC @ SKOOKUM Festival
09/20 – Milwaukee, WI @ Pabst Theater
09/21 – Indianapolis, IN @ MacAllister Amphitheater at Garfield Park
09/22 – Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theatre
09/25 – Charlottesville, VA @ Jefferson Theater
09/26 – Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore
09/28 – Miami Beach, FL @ The Fillmore at the Jackie Gleason Theater
09/29 – Orlando, FL @ Hard Rock Live
10/01 – Athens, GA @ Georgia Theatre
10/03 – Birmingham, AL @ Iron City
10/06 – New Orleans, LA @ Civic Theatre
10/05-07 – Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Festival
10/09 – Knoxville, TN @ The Mill & Mine
10/10 – Oxford, MS @ The Lyric Oxford
10/11 – Oklahoma City, OK @ The Jones Assembly
10/12-14 – Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Festival
10/26 – Gateshead, UK @ Sage Gateshead
10/27 – Liverpool, UK @ Olympia
10/28 – Portsmouth, UK @ Portsmouth Guildhall
10/29 – Leicester, UK @ De Montfort Hall
10/30 – Bath, UK @ The Forum Bath
11/01 – Antwerp, Belgium @ De Roma
11/02 – Eindhoven, NL @ Effenaar
11/03 – Groningen, NL @ TakeRoot Festival
11/05 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
11/06 – Darmstadt, DE @ Centralstation
11/07 – Berlin, DE @ Huxleys Neue Welt
11/09-10 – Weissenhäuser Strand, DE @ Rolling Stone Weekender
11/11 – Gothenburg, SE @ Konserthuset
11/14 – Budapest, HU @ Müpa Budapest, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
11/15 – Vienna, Austria @ Arena Wien
11/16 – Rust, DE @ Rolling Stone Park
11/17 – Zurich, CH @ Rote Fabrik
11/18 – Lausanne, CH @ Les Docks