Father John Misty announces ‘I Love You, Honeybear’ 10th anniversary remastered reissue

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Father John Misty has announced a 10th anniversary remastered reissue of ‘I Love You, Honeybear’.Aptly set to arrive on Valentine’s Day 2025 (February 14), Father John Misty’s 2015 album ‘I Love You, Honeybear’ will be available as a single vinyl reissued LP.It will be paired with a digital-only companion release of demos initially released on cassette and a solo performance of Nirvana’s ‘Heart Shaped Box’.A post shared by Father John Misty (@fatherjohnmisty)The former Fleet Foxes musician, real name Josh Tillman, said on the remaster: “‘I Love You, Honeybear’ is a concept album about a guy named Josh Tillman who spends quite a bit of time banging his head against walls, cultivating weak ties with strangers, and generally avoiding intimacy at all costs.

This all serves to fuel a version of himself that his self-loathing narcissism can deal with. We see him engaging in all manner of regrettable behaviour.“My ambition, aside from making an indulgent, soulful, and epic sound worthy of the subject matter, was to address the sensuality of fear, the terrifying force of love, the unutterable pleasures of true intimacy, and the destruction of emotional and intellectual prisons in my own voice.”Back in 2015, when Father John Misty released the original ‘I Love You, Honeybear’, NME gave the record 9/10 in a review. “It’s a hugely ambitious, caustically funny album about the redemptive possibilities of love, and being heartily sick of your own bullshit,” it reads.It concludes: “What saves our narrator is – you guessed it – the love of a good woman, and closer ‘I Went To The Store One Day’ finds him finally flirting with happiness, a concept the “aimless, fake drifter” in him always figured was for squares (“For love to find us of.