Father John Misty – “Things It Would Have Been Helpful to Know Before the Revolution” (The Haxan Cloak Remix)

Father John Misty – “Things It Would Have Been Helpful to Know Before the Revolution” (The Haxan Cloak Remix)
Splendour In The Grass 2017 - Byron Bay

“Things It Would Have Been Helpful to Know Before the Revolution,” from Father John Misty’s Pure Comedy, is a post-apocalyptic fable set against an arrangement of piano and stormy orchestra. Like much of the album, it derives power from a tension between the bleakness of its subject matter and the beauty of the music itself. For the official…