Man, thank you for that fabulous review with your honey-sugared lovely irish accent! :) Can you and Father John Misty please come to my private christmas party???
It’s a wonderful album. Heavy cynicism, wry wit, and gorgeous sounds. It’s great that you liken FJM to Lana Del Rey. You probably know this, but they are great friends, and have written together for years. I love FJM’s acting in Lana’s video, Freak. If you haven’t heard it, I highly recommend Lana’s cover of Buddy’s Rendezvous.
I am also a big FJM-fan and like the album. However it gives me a hard time to LOVE it, and this is strangely because of its instrumentation! You used the term "kitchen sink-melodrama" and I totally agree! I would also add the term "wall of sound taken to the maximum". What to say: Yes, the Scott Walker of the late 60s would love it and the instrumentation is immaculate, but it is somehow "too much" for me." "Time makes a fool of us all" and "Mahashmashana" is also a little bit repetitive, whereas "She cleans up" sounds refreshing. It is also a pity that he did not put "God´s favourite trash" on the album. This is an amazing. Well, overall I have to say: It´s a little bit like "Sergent Pepper" by the Beatles. You hardly dare to critizise is because it so ambitious and well produced, but it gives you a hard time to love it. Just my humble opinion.
Love this comment, albums that are great but don’t make it easy on the listener is such a great topic! I always feel this way about Tusk by Fleetwood Mac
@@TheLastMixedTapeIRL Maybe there is a "secret science" about "how to plot an album emotionally right" and this is a problem for me..F.e Mahasmasha would be a perfect closing track to the album, but the lines "Yes, it is, yes it is, yes it is" at the end of the FIRST song are too much for the beginning. Well, let´s see what they will say about the album 5 years from now. I prefered "Cloe" - it was more versatile and not that polished and bombastic ("Q4" and "Funny Girl" were, but as they were rather the exception I loved them).
@MarcusCzamay very fair criticisms! I loved the album and loved the over the top instrumentation and wall of sound. I was captivated by the gorgeous strings. I do think the title track would have been better as a closer but if not a closer, I really like it as an opener. Right now, this album and the Lemon Twigs album are fighting for the #1 spot for my 2024 AOTY!
It is totally comprehensible what you are talking about. I just have to admit, it's (almost) never too much sugar on the Father John Misty-Cake. Mahashmashana is fabulous!
Always wondered why there weren't more review channels like this! Considered doing it myself lol. New subscriber here!
Thank you so much! So glad you enjoyed it! And you should definitely do it yourself too!!
Man, thank you for that fabulous review with your honey-sugared lovely irish accent! :)
Can you and Father John Misty please come to my private christmas party???
It’s a wonderful album. Heavy cynicism, wry wit, and gorgeous sounds.
It’s great that you liken FJM to Lana Del Rey. You probably know this, but they are great friends, and have written together for years. I love FJM’s acting in Lana’s video, Freak. If you haven’t heard it, I highly recommend Lana’s cover of Buddy’s Rendezvous.
I am also a big FJM-fan and like the album. However it gives me a hard time to LOVE it, and this is strangely because of its instrumentation! You used the term "kitchen sink-melodrama" and I totally agree! I would also add the term "wall of sound taken to the maximum". What to say: Yes, the Scott Walker of the late 60s would love it and the instrumentation is immaculate, but it is somehow "too much" for me." "Time makes a fool of us all" and "Mahashmashana" is also a little bit repetitive, whereas "She cleans up" sounds refreshing. It is also a pity that he did not put "God´s favourite trash" on the album. This is an amazing. Well, overall I have to say: It´s a little bit like "Sergent Pepper" by the Beatles. You hardly dare to critizise is because it so ambitious and well produced, but it gives you a hard time to love it. Just my humble opinion.
Love this comment, albums that are great but don’t make it easy on the listener is such a great topic! I always feel this way about Tusk by Fleetwood Mac
@@TheLastMixedTapeIRL Maybe there is a "secret science" about "how to plot an album emotionally right" and this is a problem for me..F.e Mahasmasha would be a perfect closing track to the album, but the lines "Yes, it is, yes it is, yes it is" at the end of the FIRST song are too much for the beginning. Well, let´s see what they will say about the album 5 years from now. I prefered "Cloe" - it was more versatile and not that polished and bombastic ("Q4" and "Funny Girl" were, but as they were rather the exception I loved them).
@MarcusCzamay very fair criticisms! I loved the album and loved the over the top instrumentation and wall of sound. I was captivated by the gorgeous strings. I do think the title track would have been better as a closer but if not a closer, I really like it as an opener. Right now, this album and the Lemon Twigs album are fighting for the #1 spot for my 2024 AOTY!
It is totally comprehensible what you are talking about. I just have to admit, it's (almost) never too much sugar on the Father John Misty-Cake. Mahashmashana is fabulous!