{"id":4897,"date":"2025-09-01T10:34:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T10:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/father-john-misty-closes-end-of-the-road-2025-with-a-blitz-of-bombast-151166\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T10:34:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T10:34:42","slug":"father-john-misty-closes-end-of-the-road-2025-with-a-blitz-of-bombast-151166","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/father-john-misty-closes-end-of-the-road-2025-with-a-blitz-of-bombast-151166\/","title":{"rendered":"Father John Misty closes End Of The Road 2025 with a blitz of bombast"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Four days into End Of The Road 2025 and even the weather itself has gone experimental, with passages of blazing summer heat giving way to lengthy bursts of challenging downpour. But this is a festival of stern and uncompromising stuff. As Shovel Dance Collective<\/strong> start the day with some dark, cranky and stirring drone-folk, EOTR remains defiant.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Four days into End Of The Road 2025 and even the weather itself has gone experimental, with passages of blazing summer heat giving way to lengthy bursts of challenging downpour. But this is a festival of stern and uncompromising stuff. As Shovel Dance Collective<\/strong> start the day with some dark, cranky and stirring drone-folk, EOTR remains defiant.<\/p>\n

Into one sunnier interlude wanders Georgia\u2019s\u00a0Jake Xerxes Fussell<\/strong> and a soft-stick drummer, here to bestow Americana both light and dark \u2013 a wife dies and is buried in the space of a weekend, but also, \u201cI got fresh fish this morning!\u201d \u2013 with his elevating guitar intricacies. As careful with his music\u2019s geography as its spiderweb arpeggios, he\u2019s a welcoming player, even inviting Nick Lowe\u2019s \u201cI Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass\u201d onto his idyllic porch swing.<\/p>\n

Straight outta Louisville with trucker dust on their heels, Ryan Davis<\/strong> & The Roadhouse Band<\/strong> are similarly sumptuous, but imbued with rather more edge and energy, not least by having a besuited keyboardist jiving and jerking around the stage and indulging in tom-tom freak-outs as if under the impression he\u2019s in At The Drive-In. Instead, Davis\u2019s music is rich in Midwest mythology, from the National-esque sonics smoothing over the clattertronic effects of \u201cThe Simple Joy\u201d to the skewed organ spookiness and gliding country drone of \u201cJunk Drawer Heart\u201d (\u201cSomeone\u2019s been fucking with the jukebox again \/ Now it only plays the \u2018Sultans Of Swing\u2019<\/em>\u201d). All sweet whisky and sawdust, a revelation.<\/p>\n

On the Boat stage in the woods, Gina Birch & The Unreasonables<\/strong> are shouting \u201cdon\u2019t fight your friends, fight your enemies!<\/em>\u201d in the most polite ambient dub-punk way imaginable, while later on the Talking Heads stage Christopher Owens<\/strong>, in the woollen hat and waterproofs of a drenched stagehand, hosts a solo set heavy with covers both inspired and bizarre, evidence that his mind is intrinsically set to \u2018random shuffle\u2019. <\/p>\n

Spiritualized\u2019s \u201cBroken Heart\u201d and Simon & Garfunkel\u2019s \u201cBridge Over Troubled Water\u201d benefit from his tremulous frailty, but so, strangely, do suddenly deeply tragic takes on \u201cLeaving On A Jet Plane\u201d and Michael Jackson\u2019s \u201cHeal The World\u201d. Add in revisits of Girls favourites \u201cLaura\u201d and \u201cHellhole Ratrace\u201d and a damp hill of devotees is resolutely charmed.<\/p>\n

Headliner Father John Misty<\/strong>, on the other hand, is only a passing acquaintance of subtlety. Taking to a Woods stage lined with Hollywood movie lights and backed with a blood red curtain, he lures us in, song by song, with feints of sophisticate soul, classic lounge loucheness, tropical rock and slow gospel country, only to then blitz them all with elegant bombast. There\u2019s a sense that these were the sort of sounds that Harry Nilsson was hearing in his head throughout much of the \u201870s, particularly during the more psychedelic warps of \u201cBeing You\u201d or the glorious personal misdemeanours of the acid-tripping \u201cJosh Tillman And The Accidental Dose\u201d and \u201cMr Tillman\u201d, a catalogue of embarrassing wake-up calls that the drunken rock star only ever faces at hotel reception: the mattress on the balcony, the passport left in the minibar.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s clearly becoming more self-aware, though. His Lana Del Rey collaboration \u201cBuddy\u2019s Rendezvous\u201d is dedicated to \u201call my alcoholic 29-year-old females\u201d; the slow-dance cruise ballad \u201cMental Health\u201d makes friends with its internal traumas; and \u201cNothing Good Ever Happens At The Goddamn Thirsty Cow\u201d\u00a0\u2013 with its strip-joint magnificence and blow-up doll similes \u2013 is introduced as \u201crepulsive\u201d and \u201cincreasingly inappropriate\u201d but played anyway because \u201cI\u2019m giving you what you want\u201d. <\/p>\n

By the closing stretch \u2013 monumental blasts through \u201cScreamland\u201d, \u201cHoly Shit\u201d and \u201cMahashmashana\u201d \u2013 it\u2019s all blazing light and sound, literally blasting a CGI hole in the backdrop curtain. \u201cI\u2019m not gonna forget this evening any time soon,\u201d he says before a closing \u201cReal Love Baby\u201d. And nor are we.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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