- indie rock, singer-songwriter
- 74 min
- 13 tracks
- Sub Pop Records
Pure Comedy is the third studio album by American folk musician Josh Tillman under his pseudonym Father John Misty. Its release was announced on January 23, 2017. It was released on April 7, 2017, on Bella Union in the UK and Europe and on Sub Pop in the rest of the world.
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Contemporary, spare, character-led and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
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Metacritic 85/100 · AnyDecentMusic? 8/10
- AllMusic4/5 ★
- The A.V. ClubB+
- Entertainment WeeklyB+
- The Guardian5/5 ★
- The Independent4/5 ★
- Mojo5/5 ★
- NME5/5 ★
- Pitchfork7.6/10
- Q4/5 ★
- Rolling Stone4/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Pure Comedy6:24
- 2Total Entertainment Forever2:54
- 3Things It Would Have Been Helpful to Know Before the Revolution4:18
- 4Ballad of the Dying Man4:51
- 5Birdie5:20
- 6Leaving LA13:12
- 7A Bigger Paper Bag4:42
- 8When the God of Love Returns There’ll Be Hell to Pay4:04
- 9Smoochie3:46
- 10Two Wildly Different Perspectives3:13
- 11The Memo5:17
- 12So I’m Growing Old on Magic Mountain9:58
- 13In Twenty Years or So6:27
13 tracks, 74 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Father John Misty
- Label
- Sub Pop Records
- Released
- 2017
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- XW
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