Father John Misty: “Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings” (MP3 download) - Boing Boing Exclusive!

Sound it Out # 17: Father John Misty “Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings”

I’m extremely happy to share this free/exclusive download of Father John Misty’s first single.

Father John Misty is better known as Josh Tillman, former drummer for Fleet Foxes and a solo artist. He has a new album called Fear Fun that’s out on May 1st. I’m often quite bad at inferring the deeper meaning of songs, so I went to the source and asked Josh. Here’s what he said:

The central idea in this song is that the customs we have at our disposal to deal with grief, or commemorate a life, generally spectacularly fail to do either of those. Sometimes, and in my case, those attempts at reconciling life with grief fare much better while hooking up in a graveyard.

The song evokes an interesting combination of sorrow and rage. It hasn’t driven me to go get it on in a cemetery, but I’m not entirely ruling it out.

• [Richard W. Boyd, II]

  When the video hit last week I’ve caught myself playing the Youtube clip over and over and over.  This is on my list of must-gets for this year.

• [theophrastvs]

  needs more percussion  [eyeskywards]

• [Amy Seidenwurm]

  You can also follow Josh’s extremely entertaining tweets at 
  https://twitter.com/#!/fatherjohnmisty

• [Alejandro_the_Great]

  That pic looks like the set of Lord of the G-Strings.

• [pjcamp]

  What the hell player is that, that has no way to adjust the volume? Bad!

• [Andrew Irving]

  Tripped over this tune on Youtube, F@#king brilliant, and to find out that its from a former fleet fox member makes total sense, bring on the album

• [Incipient Madness]

  Sounds like a bunch of kids from East Texas in 1984 wishing they were a bunch of kids from Manchester in 1979. But not really, my old band was never this good. 

• [Ian Terrance Patrick Gillis]

  Their first album was better, I have it on vinyl.