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I Love You, Honeybear

by FATHER JOHN MISTY

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James Loves You
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James Loves You The final four tracks of this album form one of the strongest four-track-runs on an album I think I've ever heard. Favorite track: Holy Shit.
The_Coffee_Wizard
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The_Coffee_Wizard A collection of absolutely soul crushing jams Favorite track: Bored In The USA.
wilt.fyi
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wilt.fyi It's FJM, it's always good. Favorite track: Holy Shit.
bauwerkz
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bauwerkz a good example of his musical versatility and a kind of thoughtfulness that is less mainstream. Favorite track: True Affection.
David Reidy
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David Reidy I too have said awful things, such awful things. Favorite track: The Ideal Husband.
Christopher
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Christopher The music, singing and songwriting on this album mesh together perfectly. This isn't really my style of music normally, but the album is so damn good that it's hard not to love if you appreciate great songwriting. Favorite track: When You're Smiling And Astride Me.
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*A word about the refurbished deluxe edition 2xLP*

With the new repressing of the deluxe, tri-colored vinyl that is now available again for purchase, we ask just one favor that will also serve as your only and final warning: The deluxe, pop-up-art-displaying jacket WILL warp the new vinyl if said vinyl is inserted back into the jacket sleeves and inserted into your record shelf. To prevent this, we ask that you keep the new LPs outside the deluxe jacket, in the separate white jackets that they ship in. Think of these 2 parts of the same deluxe package as “neighbors, not roommates” on your shelf, and your records will remain unwarped for many years to come (assuming you don’t leave them out in extreme temperatures or expose them to other forces of nature that would normally cause a record to warp…)!
*The LP is cut at 45 rpm. Please adjust your turntable speed accordingly!*

“I Love You, Honeybear is a concept album about a guy named Josh Tillman who spends quite a bit of time banging his head against walls, cultivating weak ties with strangers and generally avoiding intimacy at all costs. This all serves to fuel a version of himself that his self-loathing narcissism can deal with. We see him engaging in all manner of regrettable behavior.

“In a parking lot somewhere he meets Emma, who inspires in him a vision of a life wherein being truly seen is not synonymous with shame, but possibly true liberation and sublime, unfettered creativity. These ambitions are initially thwarted as jealousy, self-destruction and other charming human character traits emerge. Josh Tillman confesses as much all throughout.

“The album progresses, sometimes chronologically, sometimes not, between two polarities: the first of which is the belief that the best love can be is finding someone who is miserable in the same way you are and the end point being that love isn’t for anyone who isn’t interested in finding a companion to undertake total transformation with. I won’t give away the ending, but sex, violence, profanity and excavations of the male psyche abound.

“My ambition, aside from making an indulgent, soulful, and epic sound worthy of the subject matter, was to address the sensuality of fear, the terrifying force of love, the unutterable pleasures of true intimacy, and the destruction of emotional and intellectual prisons in my own voice. Blammo.

“This material demanded a new way of being made, and it took a lot of time before the process revealed itself. The massive, deranged shmaltz I heard in my head, and knew had to be the sound of this record, originated a few years ago while Emma and I were hallucinating in Joshua Tree; the same week I wrote the title track. I chased that sound for the entire year and half we were recording. The means by which it was achieved bore a striking resemblance to the travails, abandon and transformation of learning how to love and be loved; see and be seen. There: I said it. Blammo.” -Josh Tillman (A.K.A. Father John Misty)

All LP versions are 45 rpm.
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released February 10, 2015

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