Chloë and the Next 20th Century is the fifth studio album by American musician Josh Tillman under the stage name Father John Misty, released through Sub Pop and Bella Union on April 8, 2022.

[7] Critics have commented on the album's more "hopeful" tone compared to previous outings, with Tillman indulging in a nostalgia for an earlier F. Scott Fitzgerald era heavily steeped in excess and wealth, instead of the mortality of God's Favorite Customer or societal annihilation of Pure Comedy.

[2] The song references dark corners of human history, Nazis, Jesus Christ and the faded celebrity of Batman-era Val Kilmer amongst other things.

[8] In the song, the glitzy showbiz and glamorous 20s Hollywood façade fades away as Tillman muses over apocalyptic concerns and the fear that we may be living through an extension of the last hundred years instead of a new century.

It announced Father John Misty's fifth studio album, Chloë and the Next 20th Century, scheduled for release on April 8, 2022, by Sub Pop and Bella Union.

[18] Alexis Petridis of The Guardian wrote, "Tillman's songwriting is portable, capable of transcending its era ... Its tracks are more than knowing facsimiles of vintage styles because they're uniformly melodically stunning – listen to the chorus of "We Could Be Strangers", or the close-miked sigh of "Kiss Me (I Loved You)".

"[4] Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly praised the album's lyrics as "pure picaresque, so full of eccentric characters and casual Hollywood lore they feel less like songs than Paul Thomas Anderson movies compressed to six minutes or less.

"[23] In a less favorable review, Charles Lyons-Burt of Slant Magazine found the album's "midcentury Broadway" instrumentation to be "sluggish and overly swooning" and wrote that it "doesn't possess the observational heft of 2017's Pure Comedy, a post-apocalyptic survey of America's anxieties and lamentable cultural habits.