#81

I’ve got a few friends who are massive fans, and despite the fact that lyrically it appeals to me greatly it’s never stuck with me in the same way. I think the song-writing can be a bit of a slog sometimes, a bit sluggish and bland. That being said, I think this new one has some of my favourite songs he’s ever written. I think “When The God of Love…” is probably the most beautiful tune he’s ever released, and ‘The Memo’ is probably the funniest. I like the album but every time I think about sticking it on all the way through it just feels like it’s gonna be too much effort.

#82

I’ve tried really really hard but I’m just not feeling it. I LOVED Honeybear, in fact it’s probably my favourite album released in the last five years but Pure Comedy is just not doing it for me.

I feel like knowing self-absorption is still self-absorption and is just not that interesting, especially after an hour plus. Knowing that you’re writing a really long chorus-less song and referring to the fact doesn’t stop it being a slog.

Honeybear had the arch and knowing self referential stuff but it wore it far far more lightly. And it was sexy and funny and upbeat in places. Pure Comedy is far more one-note. And it’s one note that lasts over an hour. Urrrgggghhh.

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#83

I like the start and end. The middle can fuck off 7/10

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#84

Anyone seen him on this tour? He any good?

#85

Saw him two years ago at Green man, best festival gig I’ve ever seen probably

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#86
#87

Old post but ‘Jesus Blood’ is one of my favourite pieces of music and extraordinarily powerful.

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#88

Yeah, I’ve never heard anything else like it, really. It’s incredible.

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#89

That and the sinking of the titanic were the first things Brian eno put out on his label. Guessing they still get performed sometimes, I would love to see it someday.

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#90

It had to be Eno, fair play.

Quite sad that they never knew who the homeless man singing was. There’s a Tom Waits version too, I believe.

#91

It’s the tremor in his voice and the time signature. Getting shivers even thinking about it.

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#92

Can’t stop thinking about ‘Two Wildly Different Perspectives’ and Donald Trump’s condemnation of the violence ‘on both sides’ after the car attack that killed the antifascist.

In other words. Fuck you Josh Tillman.

I mean I can’t understand how someone can sing the lines “another white guy in 2017 / who takes himself so goddam seriously / She’s not far off the strange thing is / that’s pretty much what I thought when I started this” and then write a song as painfully asinine, as bullshit white-nonsense as ‘both sides are equally bad’.

#93

Not sure he’s singing about Nazis in that song

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#94

Don’t agree tbh. Given it was recorded when Trump was about to complete his victory in the Republican primaries, he has to be considered, and Trump’s rise was so obviously rooted in the neo-nazi, super awful shit.

Either he wrote it before and decided not to change anything after seeing Trump’s rise - in which case, fuck him - or he wrote it during the rise of Trump - in which case, fuck him.

#95

Mate you need to calm down

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#96

Think u might be right

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#97

I met Father John at a bar, after a show when he was still touring as Josh Tillman, years ago. I got to have a drunken but good talk about music with him then, in which he was even willing to answer questions about relations with Fleet Foxes, provided that nothing he said found its way to print. That’s how far he went to show appreciation to a fan.

Edit: Accidentally replied to the last post instead of the thread. Sorry.

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#98

‘Elton Josh’ is quite good

#99

He’s not wrong though, guys a bellend

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#100

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