Father John Misty – Mahashmashana (2024) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Father John Misty – Mahashmashana (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:24 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Rock
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After a decade being born, Josh Tillman is finally busy dying. Mahashmashana is the sixth album by Father John Misty. It was produced by Josh Tillman and Drew Erickson. It was engineered and additionally produced by Michael Harris. It was arranged by Drew Erickson. It was performed by Josh Tillman, Drew Erickson, Jonathan Wilson, Dan Bailey, Eli Thomson, David Vandervelde, Chris Dixie Darley, Jon Titterington, and Kyle Flynn. It was executive produced by Jonathan Wilson. It was recorded and mixed at Five Star and East/West, United and Drew’s House.Josh Tillman—who once said his goal is to be “authentically bogus, rather than bogusly authentic”—is polarizing, a love him or hate him kind of artist. But even for fans, there are some surprises on his sixth album as Father John Misty. “Screamland,” which features Low’s Alan Sparhawk’s quiet guitar, starts off with the music very low in the mix and an unusual focus on Tillman’s voice. Then the strings build, but Tillman also grows more forceful—as if in competition—and it all explodes at the chorus as he rages against the immortal inevitability of time. It’s unlike anything Tillman has done before, and it’s intriguing. He’s moved through the stages of grief to resigned acceptance by “I Guess Time Just Makes Fools of Us All.” “Our naked bodies go on trial just for laughing at the joke…,” he sings wearily of a changing world. “That’s where you’ll find me, in Las Vegas, doing my greatest hits.” Appropriately, the song evokes washed-up Vegas lounge with its flashy sax, wah guitar and funk groove set to a galloping rhythm. Tillman tries on a Beck-like delivery for the soul-funk slow jam “Josh Tillman and the Accidental Dose,” calling out Pynchon yuppies, tacit fascists and a woman who “Put on Astral Weeks/ Said I love jazz/ And winked at me.” He goes for a staccato phrasing, accompanied by Zorn-style sax blasts, for “She Cleans Up,” which feels like the soundtrack to a Hollywood-idealized beatnik shindig. Cinematic has always been his thing, of course. Slinky, Alan Parsons-ish “Being You” could accompany a 1970s detective show, and wistful “Summer’s Gone” suggests a ’50s housewife melodrama. Mahashmashana is a slightly Anglicized version of a Sanskrit word meaning “great cremation ground,” but Tillman is not burning down his past. The title track is maximalist, retro art pop; it’s little ebb and almost all flow. “Mental Health,” a Nilsson-style romantic number with fluttering strings and soprano sax, plays out with a tragic grandiosity—imagine the Titanic’s band performing as the ship goes down. “Mental health, mental health/ There’s no higher virtue held in this crazy world/ It’s more than a little bit absurd,” Tillman sings, veering between trademark sardonicism and cautious sincerity. “Feels awful real sometimes/ But it’s all in your mind.” – Shelly Ridenour

Tracklist:

1-1. Father John Misty – Mahashmashana (09:19)
1-2. Father John Misty – She Cleans Up (04:26)
1-3. Father John Misty – Josh Tillman and the Accidental Dose (05:12)
1-4. Father John Misty – Mental Health (06:28)
1-5. Father John Misty – Screamland (06:51)
1-6. Father John Misty – Being You (05:13)
1-7. Father John Misty – I Guess Time Just Makes Fools of Us All (08:35)
1-8. Father John Misty – Summer’s Gone (04:17)

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