Father John Misty - Pure Comedy - CD

Pure Comedy is the story of a species born with a half-formed brain. The species’ only hope for survival, finding itself on a cruel, unpredictable rock surrounded by other species who seem far more adept at this whole thing (and to whom they are delicious), is the reliance on other, slightly older, half-formed brains. This reliance takes on a few different names as their story unfolds, like “love,” “culture,” “family,” etc. Over time, and as their brains prove to be remarkably good at inventing meaning where there is none, the species becomes the purveyor of increasingly bizarre and sophisticated ironies. These ironies are designed to help cope with the species’ loathsome vulnerability and to try and reconcile how disproportionate their imagination is to the monotony of their existence. 

Something like that. 

Pure Comedy was recorded in 2016 at the legendary United Studios (Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Beck) in Hollywood, CA. It was produced by Father John Misty and Jonathan Wilson, with engineering by Misty’s longtime sound-person Trevor Spencer and orchestral arrangements by renowned composer/double-bassist Gavin Bryars (known for extensive solo work, and work with Brian Eno, Tom Waits, Derek Bailey). 

Pure Comedy    
Total Entertainment Forever    
Things It Would Have Been Helpful To Know Before The Revolution    
Ballad Of The Dying Man    
Birdie    
Leaving LA    
A Bigger Paper Bag    
When The God Of Love Returns There'll Be Hell To Pay    
Smoochie    
Two Wildly Different Perspectives    
The Memo    
So I'm Growing Old On Magic Mountain    
In Twenty Years Or So