These days, it seems as if every big album has to be streamed online for free before its official release date, but singer-songwriter -- and former Fleet Foxes drummer -- Josh Tillman, better known as Father John Misty, has found a sly way to get around that. According to Stereogum, Tillman has made his upcoming studio album I Love You, Honeybear available for streaming on his website through a new streaming service called SAP, but instead of uploading the actual studio recordings, Tillman has uploaded instrumental MIDI versions of the entire album, and it sounds hilariously awful.
"I am pleased to introduce SAP," Tillman writes on his website, "a new signal-to-audio process in which popular albums are 'sapped' of their performances, original vocal, atmosphere, and other distracting affectations so the consumer can decide quickly and efficiently whether they like the musical composition, based strictly on its formal attributes, enough to spend money on it."
SAP was created by Tillman with help from software developer Casey Wescott, who has rendered each song from I Love You, Honeybear into cheap, GarageBand parodies of themselves. If you want to purchase the studio version of the album, set for release through Sub Pop Feb. 10, you can pre-order it through Father John Misty's Web store. The album will be Tillman's ninth studio album overall, his second under the name Father John Misty, following 2012's Fear Fun.
Father John Misty's single "Bored in the U.S.A." was chosen by the Music Times staff as one of the 25 best songs of 2014. You can check out that complete list here.
You can check out the real, non-MIDI version of "Bored in the U.S.A." here:
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