Father John Misty has shared the baroque single ‘The Payoff’ and announced a huge London gig for this summer.
The singer-songwriter – real name Joshua Tillman – last released new music with the single ‘The Old Law’ in January, and now he has followed it up the harpsichord-rich new track ’The Payoff’, a bold, vintage-rock offering that touches on psych rock and late-period John Lennon.
Like ‘The Old Law’, ‘The Payoff’ was written by Tillman and arranged by Drew Erickson, with the two working together on production. It was mixed and engineered by Michael Harris at Fivestar Studios in Topanga, California and mastered by Adam Ayan Mastering.
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Tillman has also announced a huge ‘Evening With Father John Misty’ show at London’s O2 Shepherds Bush Empire for Friday, June 12, to make up for his cancelled appearance at LIDO Festival in the capital, which had been scheduled for the same day, but was cancelled last month due to concerns about the grounds at Victoria Park.
Tickets for his headline show at the West London venue go on presale at 10am on Wednesday (May 13), with a general sale set to begin at the same time on Friday (May 15). Find yours here.
He also plays a string of shows in North America in May (find tickets here) and a number of European dates after that in June (tickets here). He was also recently announced for All Things Go in Maryland.
In early 2025, Father John Misty celebrated the 10th anniversary of his second album album ‘I Love You, Honeybear’ by releasing a remastered reissue. He also joked about the milestone coinciding with ‘rival’ Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show, writing: “Today of all days.”
Father John Misty’s last studio album was ‘Mahashmashana’ in 2024, which earned a four-star review from NME that read: “The lush ‘Mahashmashana’ doesn’t quite mainline the zeitgeist in the same way that ‘Honeybear’ and ‘Pure Comedy’ did. Then again, there’s something to be said, in 2024, for logging off in favour of self-reflection.
“On the swooning ‘Mental Health’, Misty rejects the hive mind, concluding that his own particular ‘insanity‘ is ‘indispensable‘. Whoever the folk he is underneath that beard, the good Father can’t help but share words of wisdom.”
