“furiously scribbling my seeming response”
Father John Misty has had his say on Kendrick Lamar shock releasing his new album ‘GNX’ the identical day as he dropped his new album ‘Mahashmashana’.
The Compton rapper posted a hyperlink to the album on his social media pages at 5pm UK time on Friday (November 22), with the 12-track, 44-minute launch now on all main music streaming platforms.
It’s Lamar’s sixth studio album and first since 2022’s ‘Mr. Morale & The Large Steppers’, and options manufacturing from Jack Antonoff, Kamasi Washington, Mustard, Terrace Martin and Sounwave. It additionally contains uncredited visitor vocals from SZA.
The album doesn’t embody ‘Not Like Us’ or any of the opposite tracks that arrived earlier this yr as a part of Kendrick’s high-profile beef with Drake.
Now, Father John Misty has joked about his personal new album coming into competitors with Lamar’s. He wrote on X: “not now I’m furiously scribbling my seeming response to”.
When a fan commented, “I’m so sorry that you just occurred to drop on the worst doable day to drop a brand new album,” Misty identified that that is the fifth time each musicians have dropped albums in the identical yr – in reality, the pattern has been going for nearly so long as Lamar has been releasing albums.
“it’s okay solely different occasions it’s occurred was 2012, 2015, 2017 and 2022,” he wrote.
not now I’m furiously scribbling my seeming response to
— Father John Misty (@fatherjohnmisty) November 22, 2024
it’s okay solely different occasions it’s occurred was 2012, 2015, 2017 and 2022
— Father John Misty (@fatherjohnmisty) November 22, 2024
In a four-star evaluation of ‘Mahashmashana’, NME wrote: “The luxurious ‘Mahashmashana’ doesn’t fairly mainline the zeitgeist in the identical method that ‘Honeybear’ and ‘Pure Comedy’ did. Then once more, there’s one thing to be mentioned, in 2024, for logging off in favour of self-reflection. On the swooning ‘Psychological Well being’, Misty rejects the hive thoughts, concluding that his personal explicit “madness” is “indispensable”. Whoever the people he’s beneath that beard, the nice Father can’t assist however share phrases of knowledge.
He will even embark on a UK and European tour in 2025, together with an enormous present on the Royal Albert Corridor.
Tickets are on sale now – you’ll be able to buy yours here (UK) and you’ll try the total checklist of dates under.
Father John Misty’s 2025 European and UK tour dates are:
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03 – Sentrum Scene, Oslo, Norway
04 – Fållan, Stockholm, Sweden
05 – Copenhagen Opera Home, Copenhagen, Denmark
06 – Huxleys Neue Welt, Berlin, Germany
08 – La Cigale, Paris, France
09 – Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
10 – TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands
12 – Usher Corridor, Edinburgh, UK
13 – O2 Apollo, Manchester, UK
14 – Brighton Dome, Brighton, UK
15 – Royal Albert Corridor, London, UK