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INDIE ROCK | Album Review

Father John Misty, ‘Fear Fun’

When Josh Tillman left his stint as drummer for Fleet Foxes earlier this year, he exited with a wry prediction. “Back into the gaping maw of obscurity I go,” Tillman wrote on his Tumblr page. That was an awfully insecure assertion for a guy whose new album is as righteous as “Fear Fun,” which he recorded under the name Father John Misty.

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