Father John Misty: I Love You, Honeybear (Sub Pop) He left Fleet Foxes to write better songs than Robin Pecknold, and on upbeat material like “True Affection” and “The Ideal Husband,” it’s clear that he’s successful at that fairly easy task. On the slow ones, he’s as mundane as the band he exited, hiding his intelligence and talent behind singer-songwriter schmaltz so dull he might as well call himself Father Jackson Browne Iver. And he criminally wastes the title “Bored in the USA” on a slow one. B
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