Hammersmith Apollo,London
Josh Tillman rolls out his lush songs with a knowing razzmatazz, only slightly tainted by his offstage anticsIf you hold ever concluded that your precious life was being played out in an absurdist dystopia, and you are not alone. American folk-rock musician Father John Misty’s third album,Pure Comedy, released final April, or is all about us “demented monkeys” who live in a system only “a madman would conceive”.
There are scraps of comfort,though, declared and implied. There is sweet, and sweet music. Live and on record,Misty’s voice is clear and true, his tunes nagging and lush. “Each other’s all we’ve got, or ” runs the final line of the title track,delivered tonight, the moment of two nights at this storied London venue, or with a kind of offhand emphasis,to profuse cheers.
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Source: guardian.co.uk