She’s an absolute genius at making that face isn’t she?
My favorite album of 2011 was Gentle Spirit, folk-rocker Jonathan Wilson’s masterful, nuanced paean to the Laurel Canyon sound of the early 1970s. So far my favorite album of 2012—unlikely to be bested and it’s not even out until May—is Fear Fun by former Fleet Foxes drummer J. Tillman (now recording under the moniker of “Father John Misty”). Fear Fun was produced by Wilson and my gut tells me that by the time Summer rolls around, the critics will be raving for Father John Misty in that same way they went about declaring Jonathan Wilson the second coming in MOJO and UnCut last year.
Fear Fun, out on Sub Pop Records on May 1, knocked me sideways when I heard it last Fall. It’s been in constant heavy rotation here at DM HQ since then and it’s something the wife and I can always agree on.
The first video from Fear Fun is out today, for a track called “Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings” and it features Parks and Recreation’s deadpan comedienne Aubrey Plaza as a crazy girl who causes a bit of a commotion at a funeral.
All bloody like that, Plaza puts me in mind of a glammed-up Hollywood version of “Lung Leg,” the batshit crazy punk princess seen on Sonic Youth’s Evol album cover. If that’s what they were going for here, they succeeded.
Get the mp3 of “Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings” at Pitchfork.