In “Loud Places,” Romy beautifully pines “Didn’t I take you to higher places you can’t reach without me?” while backed by a choirlike Idris Muhammad sample, before "Good Times” unexpectedly meshes a totally legal sample from The Persuasions, with dancehall star Popcaan, and Young Thug at his most decipherable, reeling off quintessential absurdities:

The juxtaposition of the songs is jarring at first, as you’re whisked away from an xx lull into banging steel drums, but it’s near impossible not to smile and vibe to “Good Times.”

Specifically, Tillman claims that he was “in a fucking state” when he wrote “Nothing Good Ever Happens at the Goddamn Thirsty Crow” and “is disgusted by this version of himself”:

I hear a very insecure, petulant imp who is objectifying the woman he claims to love, thinking of her like an object that is his.

He also takes a break from all the sap during “The Night Josh Tillman Came To Our Apt.” to detail everything he hates about a former lover.

Father John Misty: This Time in Love, one could imagine as a subtitle.

Just one example is his Lollapalooza 2015 set, when he took a verse off of “When You’re Smiling and Astride Me” to deadpan on a Trojan condom flyover ad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh4XP7Tdd-w

A dumbed down version of his album was introduced through SAP: what its website calls “ a new signal-to-audio process by which popular albums are ‘sapped’ of their performances” to their basic levels, allowing the consumer to decide quickly if they like it enough to buy. On the same day, he serenaded Spotify employees on a karaoke machine.

Not enough? Misty threw another layer on Ryan Adams‘ cover album of Taylor Swift’s 1989, channeling The Velvet Underground while singing lyrics to “Blank Space” and “Welcome to New York” – two songs he’s never consciously listened to. After they blew up, he took them down from his Soundcloud hours later, explaining it with a ridiculous story about Lou Reed coming to him in a dream.

I was annoyed at the media. I was like, ‘these people will print anything’, so I went and gave them the most fraudulent, the most blatantly absurd, unprintable piece of surrealistic nonsense – and they printed it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU1roh5edj4

[The Father John Misty name is] a mask. I know that’s a loaded word for people and it implies that I’m lying, but I’m trying to be forthright about the fact that these personas give me a foil. Here’s this bizarre mask. Now I’m going to give you everything about me.

–Father John Misty to Interview Magazine