Video: Father John Misty - “Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings”

Josh Tillman departed Fleet Foxes just a few months ago, but he's already working hard on his solo effort, Father John Misty. On May 1st, the first Father John Misty album Fear Fun will release. A video for the single, “Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings", has been released starring Aubrey Plaza of NBC’s Parks and Recreation. Watch the video below, and check out what Tillman had to say about the new project.



Speaking about the new project, Josh Tillman said the following.

I see a lot of rampant, sexless, male-fantasy everywhere in the music around me. I didn’t want any alter-egos, any vagaries, fantasy, escapism, any over-wrought sentimentality. I like humor and sex and mischief. So when you think about it, it’s kind of mischievous to write about yourself in a plain-spoken, kind of explicitly obvious way and call it something like ‘Misty’. I mean, I may as well have called it 'Steve'.

I lost all interest in writing music, or identifying as a ‘songwriter’. I got into my van with enough mushrooms to choke a horse and started driving down the coast with nowhere to go. After a few weeks, I was writing a novel, which is where I finally found my narrative voice. The voice that is actually useful.

It was a while before that voice started manifesting in a musical way, but once I settled in the Laurel Canyon spider-shack where I’m living now, I spent months demoing all these weird-ass songs about weird-ass experiences almost in real-time, and kind of had this musical ‘Oh-there-I-am’ moment, identical to how I felt when I was writing the book. It was unbelievably liberating. I knew there was never any going back to the place I was writing from before, which was a huge relief. The monkey got banished off my back.