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Lost 12 of 2012: Father John Misty Fear Fun

Initially, there was plenty of reasons to steer clear of this record – mainly the fact that Josh Tillman’s previous solo albums had been so, so dull, the drummer from Fleet Foxes stripping away the wide-eyed wonder of his bandmates to sing po-faced folk songs. Then, there was the story behind Fear Fun, that Tillman was depressed with his lot, quit the day job, moved to LA and had decided to write a novel. Clean shaven, short-haired and wearing a fairly preposterous pseudonym, it seemed that Tillman had given up a cushty job in a massively successful band to plow a particularly lonely furrow.