Download: Father John Misty – Nancy From Now On [Best Fit UK Premiere]

It’s rare for press releases to consist of anything other than infuriating platitudes and misplaced apostrophes. What a lovely surprise, then, for ex-Fleet Foxes man Father John Misty‘s album to come accompanied by that rare thing: an entertaining, enlightening quote from the musician himself. You can read that below – and download the beautifully wry ‘Nancy From Now On’, taken from Fear Fun, due out 30 April on Bella Union.

“People who make records are afforded this assumption by the culture that their music is coming from an exclusively personal place, but more often than not what you hear are actually the affectations of an ‘alter-ego’ or a cartoon of an emotionally heightened persona. That kind of emotional quotient isn’t sustainable if your concern is portraying a human-being made up of more than just chest-beating pathos. I see a lot of rampant, sexless, male-fantasy everywhere in the music around me. I didn’t want any alter-egos, any vagaries, fantasy, escapism, any over-wrought sentimentality. I like humour and sex and mischief. So when you think about it, it’s kind of mischievous to write about yourself in a plain-spoken, kind of explicitly obvious way and call it something like ‘Misty’. I mean, I may as well have called it ‘Steve’.”