7.5
Avg Score
8
Opinions
#9,830
All Time
11
Tracks
“Take your seats: the lights are about to dim before the red curtain swings back: modern indie’s great shapeshifter will soon take the stage. With an orchestral swell of trumpets and twinkling pianos, Father John Misty comes to high-kicking life on ‘Chloë’, the opening track of his fifth album, ‘Chloë and the Next 20th Century’. The song’s swing rhythm is bolstered by an orchestra section that is ”
“On his fifth record as Father John Misty, Josh Tillman cedes center stage”
“pop’s funniest storyteller is back at his best”
“Singer-songwriter Josh Tillman reaches far, far back to the golden age of Hollywood for a dreamy, lushly orchestrated, wryly comic collection of vignettes that all depend upon the timelessness of a love song.”
“With delicate orchestral arrangements, a dead Turkish Angora, and an overlying Old Hollywood theme, Chloë and the Next 20th Century is the most un-Misty-like album yet. We're OK with that”
““What’s the fun in getting everything you want?” asks Josh Tillman on ‘Buddy’s Rendezvous’. If you’re looking for answers, you’re being taken for a fool. Listeners of Father John Misty know all too well that if you’re expecting to arrive at the truth of all the musician’s philosophical questions, you’re going to end up disappointed. In fact, I’m pretty sure he knows this – “I wouldn’t know, but ba”
