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The Chloë from the title is the subject of the first song of CHLOË AND THE NEXT 20TH CENTURY. “Chloë is a burrow socialist,” sings Father John Misty, and then the curtain rises on a vaudeville stage. The next track is already a comfortably slacking country song that even features a steel guitar.
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And so it happily continues, music from the century that also gave the title, but is now also a while ago, is declined, including a tinkling piano and buttery winds, while Josh Tillman in the lyrics of his fifth solo album dissects the quite modern life in the current century from the aged ones celebrities to socialists who are good at hiding their views.
Not that CHLOË AND THE NEXT 20TH CENTURY is a concept album, but it sounds almost like a musical from the heyday of the genre, but has priced in the melancholy, at least musically. Because in his texts, the otherwise so pitiless Tillman has now, yes, become nicer. Always melancholy, but he leaves his characters their dignity. Another change in Father John Misty’s not exactly poor career. But one that suits him.
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