Every Monday, 88Nine music director Erin Wolf shares a sonic gem she found using her nearly 20 years of new-music exploration experience. You can hear all her discoveries at 2 p.m. every Sunday on What’s All This: Adventures in New Music.
It’s a sprawling and pondering 8-minute-and-36-second journey that Father John Misty takes us on with his observant and disco-y new single, “I Guess Time Just Makes Fools of Us All” (and ain’t it the truth, FJM?).
The colorful persona created in 2012 by J. Tillman — formerly a member of the folkiest of folkers, Fleet Foxes — has taken him to stratospheric indie heights. Much of that is due to his wry observations and oft-ridiculous, dramatic sense of humor delivered and wrapped in drawling, cabaret-style vocals. Now, there’s a distillation of that experience in Father John Misty’s new compilation, Greatish Hits: I Followed My Dreams and My Dreams Said to Crawl, out now digitally and this Friday physically via Sub Pop.
As the man himself put it on Instagram, the album exists because “over the last year or so, thanks to market forces beyond my comprehension, we’ve had an influx of new listeners. The idea was to offer them a piece of vinyl featuring, hopefully, all the songs they like in one place. Thanks for listening.” And try hard not to get too stoked about a new, solo album that will be gifted to us by Tillman at a mysterious, undisclosed date.
“I Guess Time …” will be popped onto that, too, and is of course part of this episode, along with a raft of similarly fresh tunes. Listen to them all using the player at the top of this page and then make a note to dial into 88Nine at 2 p.m. every Sunday for What’s All This: Adventures in New Music.
Episode playlist
- Brigitte Calls Me Baby, "Too Easy"
- Haley Heynderickx, "Seed of a Seed"
- Sex Week, "Kid Muscle"
- Aaberg, "GULLS"
- Fousheé, "still around"
- Porridge Radio, "Sick Of The Blues"
- The Hard Quartet, "Earth Hater"
- Cavolo Nero, "Nomad"
- Lael Neale, "Electricity"
- Kate Bollinger, "What's This About (La La La La)"
- Father John Misty, "I Guess Time Just Makes Fools of Us All"
