Father John Misty is Josh Tillman, the Maryland-born singer-songwriter who drummed for Fleet Foxes before launching the project on Sub Pop in 2012. I Love You, Honeybear (2015) is the critical landmark and the place to start — ornate, ironic, and genuinely moving indie folk. Browse Father John Misty vinyl, CDs, and reissues at Wax Trax Records.
Joshua Michael Tillman was born in Rockville, Maryland on May 3, 1981. He recorded extensively under the name J. Tillman in the 2000s before joining Fleet Foxes as drummer from 2008 to 2012. He launched the Father John Misty project in 2012 with the debut Fear Fun on Sub Pop Records, marking a departure from his earlier folk and indie folk work toward more elaborate, ironic, and theatrical songwriting and arrangement approaches. His 2015 album I Love You, Honeybear is widely regarded as a critical landmark.
Father John Misty's sound combines indie folk, baroque pop, soft rock, and singer-songwriter traditions with elaborate orchestral arrangements, ironic and literary lyrical content, and Tillman's distinctive vocal delivery. His work has been widely cited as one of the defining indie folk and baroque pop projects of the 2010s.
Sub Pop and Bella Union pressings of the Father John Misty catalog have been issued in extensive color variant editions and limited deluxe pressings.
Listeners new to Father John Misty typically start with I Love You, Honeybear (2015).
