Pearly Gate Music

Pearly Gate Music's acclaimed debut arrived in 2011. But years of substance-fueled self-sabotage caught up with Zach Tillman as he began a follow-up, and he found himself crippled by anxiety, incapable of recording. Self-doubt solidified as his brother Josh began his meteoric rise as Father John Misty. Despite Zach's extraordinary talents, he was lost for years, searching for his old confidence: playing in other people's bands, experimenting with various spiritualisms and hedonism, his songs remained locked in a psychological prison. But then he found the secret: the love of this life, his wife Sondra. Within weeks of the birth of their baby daughter, Zach finally had a breakthrough. He says of the dazzling result: "Mainly Gestalt Pornography is (mostly) love songs written after certain lovers, certain dread, certain visions, certain ecstasies. I hope they transcend their origins to speak of Love in its highest, most encompassing form. God is Love."