Pure Comedy (2LP)

Format: LP  Label: Sub Pop  Year: 2017  Media Condition: New  Sleeve/Cover Condition: New  TRACKS: A1 Pure Comedy A2 Total Entertainment Forever A3 Things It Would Have Been Helpful To Know Before The Revolution A4 Ballad Of The Dying Man B1 Birdie B2 Leaving LA C1 A Bigger Paper Bag C2 When The God Of Love Returns There'll Be Hell To Pay C3 Smoochie C4 Two Wildly Different Perspectives C5 The Memo D1 So I'm Growing Old On Magic Mountain D2 In Twenty Years Or So Father John Misty's third LP release. "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." --Josh Tillman a.k.a. Father John Misty