What music did you buy/get in the post today?

[cybot]

Another day, another record :) This went missing a while ago finally surfacing this morning. From Cherry Red Records who have taken on the unenviable task of reissuing the complete Bevis Frond catalogue on vinyl. This time with a whole slab of vinyl added to each release containing bonus tracks from the vaults with the exception of "Bevis Through the Looking Glass" which was originally a double anyway....

[Ivor]

Grabbed in Freebird this morning, double vinyl with CD, poster and "listening exercises". No really. Pretty funny stuff.
Fr John Misty - I love you honeybear
(Father John Misty is the former Fleet Foxes member Josh Tillman)

“I Love You, Honeybear was recorded all through 2013 to 2014 in Los Angeles with producer Jonathan Wilson, who I also recorded and produced 2012’s Fairly Fun with. There’s a case to be made that it sounds and acts a bit like solo-era John Lennon, Scott Walker, Randy Newman, Harry Nilsson, and Dory Previn, while taking more than a few cues from Woody Allen, Kurt Vonnegut, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Muhammad Ali. It has a decidedly more soulful presence than Fear Fun, due in no small part to the fact that I am truly singing my ass off all over this motherfucker. The album is really characterized by the scope and ambition of the arrangements. Nearly every tune is augmented by something special, be it orchestral strings, a mariachi band, questionable electronic drum solos, ragtime jazz combos, soul singers, or what have you. I’m pretty sure there’s a sitar in there somewhere. Blammo.

“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.”

[Ivor]

I think I already have this but it was €7.99 second hand so one for the car... maybe....

[cybot]

[quote="Ivor"]Grabbed in Freebird this morning, double vinyl with CD, poster and "listening exercises". No really. Pretty funny stuff.
Fr John Misty - I love you honeybear
(Father John Misty is the former Fleet Foxes member Josh Tillman)



Ah so that's who he is. I must dig out my only Fleet Foxes (Ist) and see if it still does it for me. Anyway enjoy the fun filled world of Father Misty :)

[Ivor]

Ah so that's who he is. I must dig out my only Fleet Foxes (Ist) and see if it still does it for me. Anyway enjoy the fun filled world of Father Misty :)

Well he's very different to Fleet Foxes, I think FF would have limited appeal for me now but I liked it at the time.
It's pretty original stuff really and a quick (and very tired) listen last night had me hooked. It really is something special. I'm looking forward to extended and careful listening later on. The vinyl is on 2 disc 45rpm and sounds bloody good.

[HiFiFan]

I am going to see him live in October

[Ivor]

I am going to see him live in October

so am I now! Where and when is he playing?

I have a couple of mates who have been fans for quite a while and have seen him in Dublin before... I had a link to his entire set at Glastonbury but it's been taken down :(

[HiFiFan]

Sorry Ivor, I live in LA.

[cybot]

Another vinyl beauty. This time on the Touch label from the funny lads up in Norman Records.

[cybot]

Was absolutely falling over myself when I saw this in the doddery Tower vinyl racks earlier today :) Definitely one of Peter Green's best collaborations.....