Just Dumb Enough To Try returns to Pure Comedy’s more sombre territory, a reflective farewell with aching slide guitar and a brief, fizzing solo: “I’m just dumb enough to try to keep you in my life for a little while longer/ I’m insane enough to think I’m going to get out with my skin and start my life again”. Tillman barely breaks the three-minute mark, a tale of misadventure which also finds him in unusually chirpy form: “I’m feeling good, damn I’m feeling so fine/ I’m living in a cloud above an island in my mind”. The outstanding ‘White Album’-evoking opener Hangout At The Gallows, with majestic cello and Harrison-esque lead guitar, ponders the big questions: “What’s your politics, what’s your religion?” against uncharacteristically breezy “yeah yeah yeahs”. For beneath all the three-minute songs and woozy Lennon-esque harmonies, God’s Favorite Customer, written largely in New York in summer 2016 and early 2017, is an album that examines heartache, separation and the fleeting, giddy allure of freedom from all angles.Īs ever with a Father John Misty record, the line between autobiography and multifarious observations through sometimes ironic lenses is opaque. It’s a third full-length album in four years from Josh Tillman’s ever beguiling alter-ego – and while last year’s Pure Comedy was a challenging, at times impenetrable, listen – spanning 74 minutes and reflecting on the darkness engulfing politics, climate change and humanity at large – this time, the tone is often more summery.
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