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I Love You, Honeybear

Father John Misty

DOUBLE LP - 2015

I Love You, Honeybear is a concept album about a guy named Josh Tillman who spends quite a bit of time banging his head against walls, cultivating weak ties with strangers and generally avoiding intimacy at all costs. This all serves to fuel a version of himself that his self-loathing narcissism can deal with. We see him engaging in all manner of regrettable behavior.

In a parking lot somewhere he meets Emma, who inspires in him a vision of a life wherein being truly seen is not synonymous with shame, but possibly true liberation and sublime, unfettered creativity. These ambitions are initially thwarted as jealousy, self-destruction and other charming human character traits emerge.  Josh Tillman confesses as much all throughout.

The album progresses, sometimes chronologically, sometimes not, between two polarities: the first of which is the belief that the best love can be is finding someone who is miserable in the same way you are and the end point being that love isn't for anyone who isn't interested in finding a companion to undertake total transformation with. I won't give away the ending, but sex, violence, profanity and excavations of the male psyche abound. 

Side A

  I Love You, Honeybear

  Chateau Lobby #4 (in C for Two Virgins)

  True Affection

Side B

  The Night Josh Tillman Came To Our Apartment

  When You're Smiling And Astride Me

  Nothing Good Ever Happens At The Goddamn Thirsty Crow

Side C

  Strange Encounter

  The Ideal Husband

  Bored In The USA

Side D

  Holy Shit

  I Went To The Store One Day