Father John Misty - Mahashmashana (November 22nd, 2024) Album • Page 11

Radiohead’s song should have been used for spectre

 

oh you're right, arctic monkeys might have gotten passed over for billie, not sam smith

 

spectre is one of my favorite radiohead songs. was stoked to hear it on the moon shaped tour

 

see to me this is his best claim to be a true descendent of Bob Dylan

 

This is fantastic and I know it will take dozens more listens for all of the lyrics to sink in. Title track and Screamland are enormous.

 

Yeah even though the songs haven’t all sunk in yet, I love how widescreen the music is. When “Screamland” opens up it’s like those TV commercials where they have the black bars on the bottom of the screen and then expand to make it feel more expansive.

 

The vinyl package for this is really nice. Always hesitant around the "white guy, Eastern spirituality" vibes but the artwork inside the gatefold has lots of aliens and Devil's Tower artwork and a couple of Mickey Mouses coming out of a vat of acid with guns lmao. There's also a poem(?) on the insert I can transcribe and post later if people are interested. I haven't Googled it yet, so I'm unsure if it's his or not.

My Vertigo Vinyl variant looks great.

 

Listening to his How Long Gone podcast episode and he basically says there’s a part 2 / another record coming.

 

LMAO he says he turned down “The GDP of South Dakota” from A&W Canada who wanted to use Real Love Baby as their theme song

 

Screamland... god damn. This is one of the best songs I've heard in a long time.

 

hahahaha

 

my friend did work on the gatefold, as well as some of his tour admats, buy the vinyl

 

also the story of how he got hired is pretty funny, I guess FJM just cruises the Instagram hashtag #graphicdesign to find people to work on his albums lmao
during the chloe era, he did more merch and stuff for the album then but I guess he did a few things for this album too

 

No One Does Ego Death Like Father John Misty

Best review yet, even if they feel differently than I do about certain songs.

 

man I finally sat down with this yesterday and it's gorgeous. harping on how big "Screamland" sounds. kinda checked out on him after Honeybear but I'm excited to dive back in.

 

Mental Health is sneaking up on me as a real highlight here.

 

For me the highlights are Mahashmashana, Accidental Dose, and Screamland but the whole album is great

Being You is the one that I kind of forget about but it's still good

 

she cleans up >>>

 

those 3, + she cleans up and time just makes fools of us all

incredible album

 

No duds, album of the year imho

 

It’s top 5 at least

 

yeah my #1

 

Also in my top spot. And there were plenty of albums I adored this year. This one stands apart because it feels like a payoff he's been building to for years. Reminds me a lot of Norman Fucking Rockwell in that respect.