About “Pure Comedy”

The third album from Father John Misty was released on April 7, 2017, via Sub Pop Records.

Sonically, the album sounds similar to Misty’s previous release, with Honeybear collaborator Jonathan Wilson returning as the producer.

But lyrically, the album shifts from the more personal songwriting of Honeybear, which Misty explains in an interview with Zane Lowe on Beats 1:

I just knew I wanted to make something fundamentally different than anything I had made before, and so my life was gonna have to reflect a fundamental change too. A lot of the songs of the first two records were like, four in the morning, drunk in bed with pizza hanging out of my mouth. It was very one to one, I had this experience and this song came to of it. This record — this is the way that I felt my whole life. So in that way I’ve been refining these ideas for a long time.

It was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album in the 2018 Grammy Awards, but lost to Sleep Well Beast by The National