“Josh Tillman’s sixth record might be the healthiest and most wisecrack-laden thesis on the circle of life in recent memory.”
“Josh Tillman is at his spiritual peak: The mood swings are wilder, the logic more tangential, and the songwriting might be the best it’s ever been.”
“a superb chronicler of life’s perverseness”
“Time weighs heavy on Father John Misty’s forbearing sixth record, Mahashmashana”
““Who the folk is Father John Misty?” NME asked back in 2017. It was a fair question. Everyone knew by then that the singer-songwriter was a terminally online folkie – not the only contradiction about him – who’d followed an album of archly ironic love songs (2015’s ‘I Love You, Honeybear’) with a sprawling opus about the sheer madness of life in the 21st Century (‘Pure Comedy’). But who was he rea”
“Father John Misty has left the building. Mahashmashana, his latest album, reads like an elegy, backed by some of his most ambitious and hefty arrangements to date. Ditching the occasionally hard-to-swallow and sparser golden-age-pop of previous record Chloë and the Next 20th Century, his sixth album lands safely back in traditional Misty territory full of dense walls of sound and even denser lyric”
