Father John Misty has at this time (July 31) shared a reflective new single, ‘I Guess Time Simply Makes Fools Of Us All’ whereas additionally unveiling particulars of a brand new ‘Greatish Hits’ album.
The musician – actual title Josh Tillman – unveiled the standalone single whereas saying particulars of a biggest hits compilation known as ‘Greatish Hits: I Adopted My Goals And My Goals Stated To Crawl’. The album is launched digitally at this time by way of Bella Union and can arrive bodily on August 16.
Tillman had been teasing the brand new monitor and compilation during the last month and despatched a textual content to followers on his mailing checklist with a hyperlink to the tune and a cryptic tease of one thing extra to return.
The gathering is a profession spanning set of songs taken from his 5 albums to this point: ‘Worry Enjoyable’ (2012), ‘I Love You, Honeybear’ (2015), ‘Pure Comedy’ (2017), ‘God’s Favourite Buyer’ (2018), and ‘Chloë and The Subsequent twentieth Century’ (2022).
The album additionally sees the inclusion of fan-favourite, 2016’s ‘Actual Love Child’ on an album launch for the primary time.
‘I Guess Time Makes Fools of Us All’ closes the compilation however this monitor can even function on a brand new album coming “later this yr” from Tillman, in response to a brand new press launch. Tillman carried out the brand new tune stay quite a few instances in 2019 after which once more at a handful of 2023 exhibits.
Try the brand new tune and the ‘Greatish Hits’ album right here:
Tracklist for ‘Greatish Hits: I Adopted My Goals And My Goals Stated To Crawl’:
1. ‘Nancy From Now On’
2. ‘Disappointing Diamonds Are The Rarest Of Them All’
3. ‘Chateau Foyer #4 (in C for Two Virgins)’
4. ‘Goodbye Mr. Blue’
5. ‘When You’re Smiling And Astride Me’
6. ‘Mr. Tillman’
7. ‘Issues It Would Have Been Useful to Know Earlier than the Revolution’
8. ‘Please Don’t Die’
9. ‘I’m Writing a Novel’
10. ‘Actual Love Child’
11. ‘Buddy’s Rendezvous’
12. ‘Complete Leisure Perpetually’
13. ‘Hollywood Perpetually Cemetery Sings’
14. ‘Holy Shit’
15. ‘Pure Comedy’
16. ‘I Love You, Honeybear’
17. ‘I Guess Time Simply Makes Fools of Us All’
Again in June, the artist teased two new songs with brief clips posted on social media, one among which followers speculated was titled ‘Josh Tillman And The Unintentional Dose’.
Final yr, Misty was one among Lana Del Rey‘s help acts for her BST Hyde Park headline efficiency. This got here after the pair united on Del Rey’s 2023 album ‘Do you know that there’s a tunnel beneath Ocean Blvd’ for the duet ‘Let The Gentle In‘.
Father John Misty’s most up-to-date album, ‘Chloë and the Subsequent twentieth Century’, was launched in 2022 and acquired five-stars from NME. Within the evaluate, Sophie Williams wrote: “‘Chloë and the Subsequent twentieth Century’ showcases what Tillman’s creativeness can do when it’s let out to discover new and unpredictable sonic paths.
“‘Olvidado (Otro Momento)’, a shimmying bossa nova monitor that sees him sing in Spanish, by no means settles fully, increasing its woozy atmosphere right into a thick beat made up of quietly huge percussive thrives. It’s an ideal instance of how nothing on this album finally ends up fairly the place you’d anticipate it – together with the ever-evolving artist who made it.”
