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’.
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 all people/I never thought it’d be so simple”).”
Last month Father John Misty announced a UK and Ireland tour for June and August 2025, stopping in Liverpool, Nottingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Dublin and more. Visit here for tickets and more information.
Father John Misty’s 2025 European and UK tour dates are:
APRIL
03 – Sentrum Scene, Oslo, Norway
04 – Fållan, Stockholm, Sweden
05 – Copenhagen Opera House, Copenhagen, Denmark
06 – Huxleys Neue Welt, Berlin, Germany
08 – La Cigale, Paris, France
09 – Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
10 – TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands
12 – Usher Hall, Edinburgh, UK
13 – O2 Apollo, Manchester, UK
14 – Brighton Dome, Brighton, UK
15 – Royal Albert Hall, London, UK
JUNE
22 – O2 Academy, Leeds, UK
23 – Rock City, Nottingham, UK
25 – The Glasshouse International Centre for Music, Gateshead, UK
26 – Corn Exchange, Cambridge, UK
27 – Olympia, Liverpool, UK
AUGUST
23 – Leisureland, Galway, Ireland
24 – Collins Barracks, Dublin, Ireland
25 – Ulster Hall, Belfast, UK
26 – City Hall, Cork, Ireland
28 – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, UK
Father John Misty’s latest album, ‘Mahashmashana‘, was released on November 22, 2024. NME gave the album a four-star review, writing: “The lush ‘Mahashmashana’ doesn’t quite mainline the zeitgeist in the same way that ‘Honeybear’ and ‘Pure Comedy’ did. Then again, there’s something to be said, in 2024, for logging off in favour of self-reflection.
“On the swooning ‘Mental Health’, Misty rejects the hive mind, concluding that his own particular “insanity” is “indispensable”. Whoever the folk he is underneath that beard, the good Father can’t help but share words of wisdom.”
