By turns arch and earnest, Father John Misty sent fans out on a note of love
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'Anybody bite off more than they could chew?' Tillman asked the crowd after a few more deadpan songs. 'Yeah, I get it.' His advice: 'Just dissociate.'
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After an opening set by the Vancouver band Destroyer, led by frontman
'It's always darkest right before the end,' he sang on 'Screamland,' from 'Mahashmashana.' That song seems to be about the hopelessness of optimism: 'Stay young/ Get numb/ Keep dreaming/ Screamland.'
Tillman also fixates on the banality of entertainment. Dressed in a well-tailored black suit (crisp white shirt, no tie), when he wasn't strumming his acoustic guitar he roamed the stage like a Millennial lounge lizard, raising his palm up to the light in a wan gesture of devotion.
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He grew up in an evangelical Christian household, in which secular music was forbidden. His gestures may be ministerial, but his songs are a running commentary on the religion of the self – people who prioritize 'working on themselves.'
On 'She Cleans Up,' also from the latest album, the band erupted in a punky fury. The show could have used a bit more of that dynamism.
But a couple songs later came a showstopper, 'Summer's Gone,' a Great American Songbook-style tearjerker with Tillman accompanied only by delicate piano. The band got its biggest workout on the closing number of the regular set on the album's title track, 'Mahashmashana,' a majestic, nearly 10-minute anthem that George Harrison could have played at his Concert for Bangladesh.
A generous five-song encore featured songs from '
In hindsight, it seems uncanny that Tillman wrote one of those songs, 'Holy S—,' 10 years ago, back in more innocent times.
'Planet cancer, sweet revenge/ Isolation, online friends,' he sang on this deceptively breezy, strummy song.
But if you were spiraling by the end of that depressing litany, Tillman had one more thought before sending you out into the cold night.
'My love, you're the one I want to watch the ship go down with,' he crooned on 'I Love You, Honeybear.' And he seemed to mean it.
FATHER JOHN MISTY
With Destroyer
At MGM Music Hall at Fenway, Saturday, Feb. 22
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