Father John Misty Released Psychedelic Video For "Date Night"

In the trippy video for “Date Night” Father John Misty satirizes the modern dating scene by taking the viewer on a darkly comical trip through a disturbingly familiar world. Directed and animated by Chad Vangaalen, the video shows that even in a crazy, incomprehensible, psychedelic world, mutated monster-people as just as much slaves to their phones as we are.

Another track off of God’s Favorite Customer, the video holds a mirror up to an alien world and asks us to see ourselves in it. And among the unrelenting strangeness and otherworldly rabbit hole that we have fallen into, that sense of familiarity we glimpse from within proves to us that indeed, reality is truly stranger than fiction.

“Date Nights” is the fourth video from God’s Favorite Customer , following“God’s Favorite Customer”, “Mr. Tillman”, and “Please Don’t Die”. Father John Misty will soon set off on the North American leg of his world tour supporting the record, where he will make stops at New York’s Panorama, San Francisco’s Outside Lands, and Austin City Limits. Tickets can be found here and a list of North American tour dates can be found below.

07/20: Jacksonville, OR – Britt Pavilion
07/21: Troutdale, OR – Edgefield Amphitheatre
07/22: Seattle, WA – Capitol Hill Block Party
07/27: New York, NY – Panorama Music & Arts Festival
07/28: Newport, RI – Newport Folk Festival – Jane Pickens Theater [Official Aftershow]
07/29: Portland, ME – Thompson’s Point
08/01: Raleigh, NC – North Carolina Museum of Art Park Theater
08/02: Washington, DC – The Anthem
08/03: Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE
08/04: Toronto, ON – Historic Fort York & Garrison Commons
08/10-12: San Francisco, CA – Outside Lands Festival
08/12: Boise, ID – Knitting Factory Concert House
08/13: Salt Lake City, UT – The Union
08/15: Morrison, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheatre
08/17: Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater
08/17-19: Omaha, NE – Maha Music Festival
09/09: Vancouver, BC – SKOOKUM Festival
09/20: Milwaukee, WI – Pabst Theater
09/21: Indianapolis, IN – MacAllister Amphitheater at Garfield Park
09/22: Cleveland, OH – Agora Theatre
09/25: Charlottesville, VA – Jefferson Theater
09/26: Charlotte, NC – The Fillmore
09/28: Miami Beach, FL – The Fillmore at the Jackie Gleason Theater
09/29: Orlando, FL – Hard Rock Live
10/01: Athens, GA – Georgia Theatre
10/03: Birmingham, AL – Iron City
10/06: New Orleans, LA – Civic Theatre
10/05-07: Austin, TX – Austin City Limits Festival
10/09: Knoxville, TN – The Mill & Mine
10/10: Oxford, MS – The Lyric Oxford
10/11: Oklahoma City, OK – The Jones Assembly
10/12-14: Austin, TX – Austin City Limits Festival

Photo credit: Sharon Alagna

Father John Misty Released Psychedelic Video For “Date Night”