Name: Fear Fun
Brand: Father John Misty

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375 Media

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Extended format: No

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Rough Trade Exclusive: No

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Release date

2021-05-07

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144631

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98787097023

2021-03-26

144630

98787097016

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2015-03-06

39220762

602537213801

Artist

Father John Misty

Label EU

Sub Pop

Genre EU

Alternative / Modern

Short for "Subterranean Pop" 

The label was an outgrowth of [a=Bruce Pavitt]'s Olympia, WA based (print) fanzine, which became the well respected cassettezine of the same name. 

After his move to Seattle he ran a music column in the Seattle Rocket also called Sub Pop.

After initial forays into the record label world with a [a=Green River] 7" (not officially on Sub Pop) and the Sub Pop 100 LP, the label exploded onto the indie scene with four influential colored vinyl 7"s which included [a=Mudhoney]'s "Touch Me I'm Sick" which made the year-end top 10 playlist of nearly every music journalist in the world.

Subsequent hyping of the label in the English music press put them on the map, and grunge was born.

Label-Code is 03159; rarely found printed on releases (basically only on releases manufactured/licensed by Warner/WEA Germany)

American singer/songwriter originally from Rockville, MD. He initially released music under the moniker [a1177036], and later adopted the pseudonym Father John Misty for his 2012 album. Since then, he has released three more albums using this pseudonym. His close collaborator and co-producer for his albums has been [a614092].

Father John Misty is an American singer/songwriter hailing from Rockville, MD. He began his musical journey under a different name before adopting the pseudonym Father John Misty for his breakthrough album in 2012. Since then, he has continued to captivate audiences with three additional albums under this persona.

With roots in Rockville, MD, Father John Misty is an accomplished American singer/songwriter who first gained recognition under a different name. However, it was when he embraced the pseudonym Father John Misty that his career truly took off with the release of his 2012 album. Over the years, he has consistently impressed fans and critics alike with three more remarkable albums.

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Father John Misty is the nom-de-plume of Josh Tillman, who has been recording and releasing solo albums under his own name since 2003 and who recently left Seattle’s Fleet Foxes after playing drums with them from 2008-2011. When discussing Father John Misty, Tillman paraphrases Philip Roth: “‘It’s all of me and none of me, if you can’t see that, you won’t get it.’”Fear Fun, Father John Misty’s album from 2012 and now available again through Sub Pop, began gestating during what Tillman describes as an “immobilizing period of depression” in his former Seattle home, when he had lost interest in songwriting and wound up finding his voice by writing a novel. After breaking from Seattle and settling in a spider-infested Laurel Canyon treehouse, Tillman spent months demoing songs, eventually liberating himself from his creative impasse. With the help of LA producer/songwriter/pal Jonathan Wilson, a wealth of talented musicians kicking around LA and producer Phil Ek (who everyone knows has worked with Built to Spill, Modest Mouse, Band of Horses, Fleet Foxes), Fear Fun blossomed into a fully-formed expression of Tillman’s unrestrained vision.Fear Fun consists of such disparate elements as Waylon Jennings, Harry Nilsson, Arthur Russell, All Things Must Pass and Physical Graffiti, often within the same song. Tillman’s voice has never been better and often sounds like Roy Orbison at his most joyous, while the music maintains a dark, mysterious yet playful, almost Dionysian quality.Lyrically, his absurdist fever dreams of pain and pleasure elicit, in equal measures, the blunt descriptive power of Bukowski or Brautigan, the hedonist-philosophy of Oscar Wilde and the dried-out wit of Loudon Wainwright III.

Fear Fun

Music EU

Discover Fear Fun by Father John Misty. Available in CD and LP formats. A fully-formed expression of Tillman's unrestrained vision, with a dark yet playful quality. Label: Sub Pop.