FATHER JOHN MISTY About Himself
7 February 2025
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Father John Misty
10 EYE-CATCHING ALBUM COVERS of 2024
14 December 2024
Band: THE VOIDZ
Who: The side project of The Strokes
frontman Julian Casablancas.
Album: LIKE ALL BEFORE YOU
Their 3rd one.
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Artist: FATHER JOHN MISTY
Alter ego of singer-songwriter Joshua Michael
Tillman, once upon a time, Fleet Foxes‘ drummer.
Album: GREATISH HITS: I Followed My Dreams And
My Dreams Said To Crawl
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Band: TYPHOID ROSIE (Boston, MA)
Who: Female-fronted 90’s style punk act
adding pop hooks and indie grit to their
fireworks.
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Band: BRING ME THE HORIZON.
Towering British metalcore turbine.
Album: POST HUMAN: NeX GEn
7th full length.
Band: LIP CRITIC
Who: Explosive electro post-punks
from New York, NY.
Album: HEX DEALER
The band’s fucktastic debut.
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Artist: EMINƎM
The notorious non-stop
machine-gun wordsmith.
Album: THE DEATH OF SLIM SHADY (Coup De Grâce)
His 10th.
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Band: KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD
The hardest working band in the world.
Album: FLIGHT b741
26th LP in 14 years!!
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Band: THE LIBERTINES (London, UK)
Albion’s rock melancholics.
Album: ALL QUIET ON THE EASTERN ESPLANADE
Their 4th longplayer.
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Band: WARM EXIT
Experimental post-punk outfit
from Brussels, Belgium.
Album: ULTRA VIOLENCE
Their 2nd one.
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Band: THE JESUS LIZARD
The notorious Texas native, Chicago-based noise rock
veterans (1987–1999, 2008–2010, 2017–present, and
still with their classic line-up).
Album: RACK
Their first in 26 years
and 7th overall.
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FATHER JOHN MISTY – Emotive Crooner Has His 6th LP ‘MASHASHMASHANA’ Out
24 November 2024
American singer-sonwgriter Joshua Michael Tillman (43) aka FATHER JOHN MISTY
was a member of dream pop ensemble Fleet Foxes as their drummer from 2008
until 2012.
In between, he released solo work as J.Tilman with no less than 8 LPs between 2003
and 2010. Afterward, he changed his artistic name to the one all of his fans know.
Now he has released his 6th LP, called MASHASHMASHANA as Father John Misty.
Uncut says: “This is another set of brilliant, beautiful, occasionally
frustrating songs themed around ideas of ending and death.”
The album artwork was designed by artist Joe Roberts. Its title refers to the
Sanskrit word Mahāśmaśāna (महाश्मशान), meaning ‘great cremation ground‘.
FJM: “It’s an experiment in seeing what happens when I erase myself from
my work and Mahashmashana is definitely work about erasing myself”
He’s a crooner at heart,
an emotive romantic,
an inspiring poet
a great songwriter.
KEY SINGLE
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20 BEST TRACKS OF THE MONTH – OCTOBER 2024
ALL TOGETHER
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TRACK BY TRACK
Band: STRAND
Who: Power pop quartet from Dublin, Ireland which
changed their group’s name from Soundstrand to just
Strand.
Track: PROGRESS
Their first single as Strand, part from their
upcoming 5-track EP that’ll land early next
year.
“Progress is a song about changing places, people and times.”
TUTV: Epic. Grandiose. Staggering. Amplified guitar-pop at its mind-blowing best.
Get the exciting picture? Progress has a promptly goosebumps impact. It’s one of
those not-everyday puissant standout tunes that overwhelms your emotions from
the first listen.
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Artist: FATHER JOHN MISTY
Who: Drummer for dream pop ensemble
Fleet Foxes from 2008 until 2012.
Now he’s almost ready to launch his new solo album
named Mahashmashana. It arrives on November 22.
Track: SHE CLEANS UP
A solid retro rocker. Something we’re not really
hear often from the well-known crooner.
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Band: AVALANCHE PARTY
Who: Hefty bohos from Yorkshire, UK.
Track: JOHN COLTRANE’S MOSCOW SKYSCRAPER
Definitely one of this year’s weirdest song titles.
TUTV: I have no clue what this vociferous punk headbutt has to do with
the late legendary jazz saxophonist John Coltrane, but this deafening
wall-of-hells-bells havoc we experience here isn’t exactly a bebop tune.
Imagine two trains coming from opposite directions at an insane
speed crashing into each other. That’s what happens here. Beware.
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Band: AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS
Who: The punk rock whirlwind from down
under fronted by the utterly cool Amyl Tylor.
Track: JERKIN’
One of the singles of their brand
new 3rd LP Cartoon Darkness.
Another punktastic Aussie outburst.
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Band: DITZ
Who: Post-punk dropouts
from Brighton, UK.
The turbulent bohemians have their sophomore LP, named
Never Exhale. It’ll show up on 25 January 2025. Pre-order
info here.
Track: SPACE/SMILE
TUTV: Space/Smile is a slash/trash stormer, pushed by fulminating percussion,
schizo guitars and fronman Francis‘ spitting and sneering, fueled by his three
lungs, without breathing, for 108 seconds. DITZ is a mean raging machine.
They mess up your head, whether you like it or not.
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Band: THE SMILE
Who: 2 radioheads, Thom Yorke and Jonny
Greenwood and drummer Tom Skinner.
Track: ZERO SUM
From Cutouts their new, 3rd LP
in just 2 years. Their best.
This is a far-out highlight. Motorik Kraut-rock dynamics
boggle your mind from start to finish. Masterstroke.
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Artist: GAVIN FRIDAY
Who: The former flamboyant spearhead of Irish
new art wave act Virgin Prunes (1977-1986).
Track: THE CHURCH OF LOVE
Piece from his brand new album
Ecce Homo.
24-carat dancefloor stomper.
Trust me, you’ll want to join
Friday‘s church afterward.
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Band: HEARTWORMS
Who: Psych-pop act led by fast up-and-coming British songstress Jojo Orme.
They drew a lot of aural attention with last year’s EP A Comforting Notion.
The band have now announced details of their debut LP. It’s baptized
Glutton For Punishment and will land on 25th February 2025.
Track: WARPLANE
Warplane is a head-over-heels missile that speeds up sky-high from the get-go, propelled by a disco-vibe infused synth/guitar/bass collaboration and Orme‘s feverish vocals rollin’ all over it. Every time the choir-like chorus comes up your adrenalin’s production doubles . Supersonic stunner.
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Artist: LAUREN MAYBERRY
Who: Scottish frontwoman of
synth-pop act Chrvches.
Track: SOMETHING IN THE AIR
From her forthcoming solo debut,
out December 6.
Something In The Air is a gigantic tune, a bone-chilling piece of
elevating music with an ace chorus and Mayberry‘s crystal voice
going sky-high.
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Act: COLD CAVE
Who: Otherworldly LA synth-Goth-wave project.
The brainchild of Wesley Eisold.
Track: HOURGLASS
Single from their new,
3rd longplayer Passion Depression.
A New Order-esque synth-pop gem.
Glossy, trippy, and effervescent.
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Artist: KAT KOAN
Who: Berlin-based singer-songwriter.
Track: LOOSE WOMAN
Press info: A light-hearted, humorous, autobiographical documentation of a semi-dramatic nervous breakdown that happend when “one morning all plans went pear-shaped and patience went down the drain”. No longer feeling the need to pretend that everything is shiny and running smoothly, Koan lets rip on this catchy tongue-in-cheek art-pop tune. Influenced by her favourite artist Baxter Dury (yes, the son of).
TUTV: Koan‘s most explicit, unbridled and personal reflection/introspection
so far, bundled in a sensual bass-juiced melody with a nightclub vibe. Explicit?
Well, life itself is explicit, right? Let us dump our shit, ignore what people think,
and feel loose.
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Press photo by LaMendola
Band: GIRL TONES
Who: High-energy rock duo brought to life by two sisters, Kenzie and Laila. Both classically trained musicians, Kenzie transitioned from cello to guitar and Laila from piano to drums in an effort to electrify sentient beings from this galaxy to the next.
Track: FADE AWAY
TUTV: Who needs a Hole reunion if we have these two rock chicks who challenge your
stereo’s potency with inflammable swagger and ablaze gusto. Aggressive guitars, battering
drums, fiery vocals, and a hell-bloody-helly-yeah chorus.
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Band: DUMB POSH HIPPIES (hilarious name!)
Who: Psych-influenced, three-piece punk band from
Dublin/Derry with a love for big riffs and pace.
Track: SCRUNCHED UP FIST
Ciarán Fitz (vocalist/guitarist): “This is definitely one of the most outright punkers we have, probably. ‘Scrunched Up Fist’ was literally written in the jam room in 10 minutes. Matthew and James were just playing this thing as I was coming back from a smoke, and I knew I had lyrics
in my phone that would work with it. Added some guitar but not much, and it was donezo”
TUTV: Wham bloody wham bam. Expect a sharp-splitting punk rock juggernaut. Amps up and full steam ahead. No rest for the wicked with this razor-blade cutting, head over heels bombshell spiced with sneering vocals. Wham bloody wah-wah guitars bam. Scrunched Up Fist hits your face really hard. Hurry-scurry stroke.
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Band: DHARMA GUNS
Who: 4 indie rockers
from Helsinki, Finland.
Track: M.I.D.L.I.F.E. CRISIS
Third shared cut from their upcoming debut LP
Ex-Generation Superstars, out November 1st.
Pete (singer): “Some guys buy fast cars and fell for younger women; others purchase expensive guitars and hang them on the wall. And some of us wish to leave a mark in history and/or do the right thing. The verse riff is a bit ‘stonesian’ whereas the chorus of the song is a classical punk rock sing-a-long.”.
TUTV: Yes! Yes! Do you need a badass booster today to get you through the outside
rat race? Here it comes. Dharma Guns offer you a noisy piece of rock’n boogie ‘roll to test your stereo’s resilience with. Think The Black Crowes with a 70s Britpunk attitude. Get the picture? You’ll never get a midlife crisis with these Finnish wackadoos. Yes! Yes!
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Band: THE WOOD
Who: Indie duo from
the UK.
Track: LET IT LOOSE
Cut from their debut LP Days,
out on November 20.
TUTV: This guitar/drum beat-driven groove melt Southern rock and Motown soul, with its glowing horns and backing gospel vocals. Well, that’s what my ears tell me. Anyway, this catching cracker will active several of your limbs.
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Artist: JAMES BAY
Track: GO ON
From the English award-winning songsmith’s his
new, 4th longplayer Changes All The Time.
Tune. Tune. Tune.
Voice. Voice. Voice.
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Photo by Emily Joy Ashman
Band: THE BROTHER STEREO
Who: Alt-rockers from Massachusetts led by songwriter
and multi-instrumentalist Michael Robert Kelly.
Track: The Ballad of the Washed Up (and Seemingly Forgotten)
Kelly: “It’s about being at the top of your game and being a human under a lot of pressure. It’s about the superficiality of the people you meet, keeping up the facade of fame in the eyes of the world and trying to relate to others… I just had Hollywood in mind for some reason and what it must be like for people who are so famous and desirable they can’t walk down the street. Then what it’s like to be the person who used to be that famous and the shit you get for not being as ‘perfect’ or ‘beautiful’ as you used to be. Washed up, if you will.”
Infectious, mixed emotions piece
that moves and grooves with a
doom and gloom sonority.
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Photo credit: Alex Lake
Band: MANIC STREET PREACHERS
Who: Welsh veteran heroes.
Track: HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT
Singe from their upcoming 15th LP. It’s baptized
Critical Thinking and will be rolled out on
31st January 2025.
As on their last 2 albums the Manics, sonically, go poppy and
mainstream again (and they’re good at it). The days of barbwire
rock are long gone.
It’s the first single with bassist
and lyricist Nicky Wire on vocals.
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Band: GIRL WITH A HAWK
Who: The musical moniker of songstress Linda Viens
and some of Boston‘s rock legends working together.
Track: #VOTE (Rock The Boat)
Viens: “Most of us do not want to live in a world where LGBTQ+ people are not safe;
where people of color are not safe, or have the same opportunities as whites; where children are being gunned down daily; where books and education are devalued; and where women don’t have control over their own bodies. No candidate is perfect. We must vote while we still can, especially in this election, to ensure that future generations continue to have the sacred power of their freedom, their choices, and their voices.
TUTV: This song was written about 20 years ago by a Boston musician when George W. Bush was running for re-election against Massachusetts’ own John Kerry and it’s highly relevant again.
GWAH, rockers at heart, turned the encouraging tune, into a jaunty country folk pop
gem you can hum, sing and whistle along all day long. Here in Europe, we are also waiting with anticipation for the election results. Whoever wins the White House, it’ll have an impact on the rest of the world. Here in Europe want democracy to prevail, it takes care of humanity in all aspects. While waiting for November 5 , let’s rock the boat, and vote for GWAH today.
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Band: THE CURE
Track: A FRAGILE THING
Gloomy piece from their 14th album, their first in 16 years, titled
Songs Of A Lost World, and lands on planet Earth tomorrow, Nov 1.
“This song is a fragile thing
This song is my everything
Nothing you can do to change the end
There’s nothing you can do to change the end”
TURN UP THE VOLUME’s JUKEBOX 2024 – 10 New Tracks Added Every Week
Every week 10 new rad tracks added
In order to not miss a beat Turn Up The Volume scans the musical
horizon daily (doing it for years now, actually) to stay in touch with
all new things sonically great and shares the results on a weekly
basis.
FULL JUKEBOX
(380 tracks)
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The 10 new ones added this week
TRACK-BY-TRACK
Photo credit: Alex Arauz
Artist: TIBERIUS B
Who: Acclaimed singer-songwriter
from London.
Track: NEW LIFE
It’s a seductively breathless, carnally beautiful
premonition about the end of a formative
relationship.
New beginning, new life.
Tiberius B celebrate theirs
with this electro stomper.
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Artist: FATHER JOHN MISTY
Former Fleet Foxes drummer who became
a marvellous solo singer-songwriter.
Track: SHE CLEANS UP
Piece from his upcoming LP Mahashmashana.
It’ll arrive on November 22. More info here.
Here’s a rare FJM rock-out ripper.
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Band: THANK
Who: 4 indie noisemakers
from Leeds, UK.
Track: WOKE FRASIER
It follows previous ace
single Do It Badly.
“The song strikes an alluring mixture of dark techno adjacent punk themes and farcical lyrics from the perspective of a right-wing podcast host grifter obsessed with the word Woke. Solidifying the group’s terminally online status, the song is accompanied by a brilliant absurdist music video made in a video game sim akin to “You’re A Wizard Harry”.
Punk woke punk here,
punk woke there,
punk woke everywhere.
Hells bells!
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Band: TV PINS
Who: 5-piece from London and the West Midlands, delivering vocal harmony drenched sounds of West coast Americana with distinctively British avant-garde songwriting. They share a love of keyboard grooves and a fusion of styles from 70s Americana, classic British new wave, 60’s psychedelia and hook-laden power pop.
Press: “Set against a dystopian backdrop, ‘Bye Bye Reseda’ transports listeners to an alternate reality where the United States has become a dictatorship. In this world, the supreme leader has transformed the entire southern states into one massive golf course named after his favourite Los Angeles suburb. While the residents of Reseda are forced into servitude, working as caddies, bartenders and exotic dancers for less than minimum wage, one brave couple make their escape for the coast.”
Vibrant tune. Revved-up orchestration.
Guitar-charged power pop gem.
Scream-along chorus.
FUCK TRUMP!
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Band: HUGE MOLASSES TANK EXPLODES
Who: 4 space rockers from Italy.
Track: TENUOUS FORM
Piece from their new III album.
Psychedelic Kraut-pop-rock trip, driven
by gloomy synths, mind-boggling bass lines
and bone-chilling guitar electricity, with
ghostly vocals creating a twilight
experience.
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Band: SLIP~ons
Who: Indie quartet from Vancouver (Canada)
References: Husker Du, The Posies, Soul Asylum, the Nils.
Track: GRAYSTONE
“The Graystone was a venue we used to play in Detroit back in the late 80s when I was in the Doughboys. It was always an adventure, from just getting across the border to dealing with the promoter, Cary Safarian, who everyone referred to as ‘Scary.’
“Graystone” showcases singer Pytel’s signature gravelly vocals and clever, tongue-in-cheek lyrics, all backed by slamming rhythms, punchy guitars, and rolling bass lines that drive the melodies. Pytel reflects on the inspiration behind the song, saying, “The Graystone was a venue we used to play in Detroit back in the late 80s when I was in the Doughboys. It was always an adventure, from just getting across the border to dealing with the promoter, Cary Safarian, who everyone referred to as ‘Scary.’
Passionate.
High-powered.
Far-out and fiery.
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Artists: COCOROSIE
Who: Folktronica sisters Sierra Rose Rosie”
and Bianca Leilani “Coco” Casady.
Track: LEAST I HAVE YOU
The first new song to celebrate
the siblings’ 20 years in music.
Press: The song’s musical arc mirrors the sisters’ relationship: it begins
combatively, with the sound of gun-toting guitar squalls and beats like
Street Fighter punches, before leveling out into tentative euphoria,
cautiously crawling towards the ecstatic union of that chorus.
Happy 20.
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Artists: CROW BABY
Who: Berlin-based duo, featuring Jean-Louise Parker and Cherilyn MacNeil,
both born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa, and each a songwriter
and multi-instrumentalist with own projects.
Track: ONLY IF YOU WORK
“Hey, rein it in/ Pain again/ Rein it in / Feign, play it ok/
Play it to win, Never give in, never complain“,
“Like an anthem or a mantra, cheering themselves on as they strain to reach some unnamed success. In verse two, “rein” becomes “reign” – shrieked like a mad queen! – cheeky word play that alludes to great ambitions.”
Both sensuous and ardent guitar-pop entertainment
with crystalline vocals and a far-out climax.
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Artist: MR BILLY FITZGERALD
Who: Singer-songwriter from Ireland who
makes eclectic lush indie-pop-rock songs.
Track: OLD LOVES
“A song almost two decades in the making that explores the dangerous
nostalgia in looking back through rose tinted glasses at past romances.”
A peppy, amplified and foot-stompin’
pop groove spiced with affecting vocals.
FATHER JOHN MISTY Bedazzles With New Glorious Single ‘SCREAMLAND’
Daily electricity to load your batteries
19 September 2024
American songsmith Joshua Michael Tillman (43) aka FATHER JOHN MISTY played
with dream pop ensemble Fleet Foxes as their drummer from 2008 until 2012.
In between, he released solo work as J.Tilman with no less than 8 LPs between 2003
and 2010. Afterward, he changed his artistic name to the one all of his fans know.
Last July FJM shared, only digitally, his ‘Greatish Hits: I Followed My Dreams and
My Dreams Said To Crawl‘ which featured a new song titled I Guess Time Just
Makes Fools of Us All.
Now he offers another new one. SCREAMLAND is a glorious, epic and
orchestral beauty. I’m sure Nick Cave will love it, and many of you too.
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Amazing Album Artwork – Cover Of Brand New FATHER JOHN MISTY Greatish Hits Album
After 15 LPs Joshua Michael Tillman aka Artist: FATHER JOHN MISTY decided
it was time a greatest hits compilation, picked his favorite songs, named the record, weirdly, Greatish Hits: I Followed My Dreams and My Dreams Said to Crawl and
made it digitally available from July 31 on.
ARTWORK
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FJM: Instagram
5 New Sonic Injections To Start WEEK 32
5-11 August 2024
Band: MC5
Who: Iconic punks
from Detroit, Michigan.
Original line-up
Track: CAN’T BE FOUND
Back in 2022 original guitarist Wayne Kramer (who passed away only last February) broke the news that he was working on a new MC5 LP, with co-songwriter Brad Brooks (they composed 12 of the 13 tracks together), featuring famous guests like Tom Morello, Slash, Vernon Reid, and several vocalists.
The record got finally produced by Bob Ezrin,
is called Heavy Lifting and comes out in October.
Artist: JACK WHITE
(Born John Anthony Gillis)
Who: Former white stripe, also
maestro of The Raconteurs and
The Death Weather.
Track: WHAT’S THE RUMPUS
Highlight cut from his brand new 6th LP, titled No Name that dropped
last Friday without any promo singles ahead and no marketing tricks.
White return to his early blues-punk roots and it sounds DIRTY and ACE!
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Artist: FATHER JOHN MISTY
Who: The moniker of American singer-songwriter
Joshua Michael Tillman who has 15 LPs to his credit,
so far.
Track: I GUESS TIME JUST MAKES FOOLS OF US ALL
The one and only new song of his upcoming greatest hits album, named
Greatish Hits: I Followed My Dreams and My Dreams Said to Crawl,
out laeter this month.
FJM swings on this dancey/catchy new one.
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Band: CROWS
Who: Hefty post-punk
4-piece from London.
Album artwork
Track: VISION OF ME
Second shared piece from their upcoming, 3rd LP,
titled Reason Enough and out on September 27.
As haunting as ever. Early Editors echoes throughout.
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Artists: CHARLI XCX featuring BILLIE EILISH
Track: GUESS
A banger written by Charli, 100 gecs’ Dylan Brady
and the Dare, now remixed featuring Billie vocals.
Boom. Boom. Boom.
Sexy as hell.
FATHER JOHN MISTY Treats His Fans With A Live Album (Again)
28 December 2023
American songsmith FATHER JOHN MISTY released a live album for the 9th straight time. This time he did on Xmas. It’s a registration of his solo show at the Sunset Cultural Center in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, a couple of weeks ago, on 15 December.
Stream/buy.
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FJM: Facebook – Instagram
FATHER JOHN MISTY Covers STEVIE WONDER Pearl With Stirring Affection
21 September 2022
(photo by Noël McGrath)
Joshua Michael Tillman (41) aka Father John Misty
shared a 6-track live EP recorded last March at the
famous New York studio ‘Electric Lady‘.
The EP includes reworkings of songs from this year’s longplayer
Chloë And The Next 20th Century and his cover of a Stevie Wonder
pearl, I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever) from his 1972
LP Talking Book.
A truly stirring and affected version.
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The Stevie Wonder original
FJM: Facebook – Instagram