I Love You, Honeybear is the second studio album by American folk musician Josh Tillman under his pseudonym Father John Misty.

"[5] Pitchfork described the song as mocking the "entire franchise of privileged white men making their spiritual void the dark center of the universe.

"True Affection", an electronic song, dealt with isolation and Tillman's frustration with "trying to woo someone with text message and email and trying to make a connection that way."

The first part, a country blues song, deals with Tillman "turning down aggressive women" at the Crow, a bar in Silver Lake, Los Angeles.

Tillman described this service as something where "the consumer can decide quickly and efficiently whether they like a musical composition, based strictly on its formal attributes, enough to spend money on it.

"[10] Soon after the release of the Sub Pop deluxe LP version on February 10, 2015, fans and label recognized that the pressing was damaged due to packaging issues which finally caused a warp defect.

The statement reads as follows: "[W]e are sorry that many of these fancy, colored-vinyl, deluxe versions of Father John Misty's new album, I Love You, Honeybear are, it appears, warped!

"[11] Further on in the same article the label explains its decision to release I Love You, Honeybear as a double LP: "Due to its length and the wide audio spectrum of the recording, we at Sub Pop, together with Father John Misty, decided that the album sounded much better cut at 45 RPM over 2 pieces of vinyl.

Though we all prefer the listening experience of a single piece of vinyl, we decided in this case to prioritize audio quality (an admittedly very subjective determination).

Club said, "With a welcoming tenor and a likeably schmaltzy delivery that finds him displaying loads of range and emotions, he's able to give his subject matter the unforgiving and ultimately warm treatment it deserves.

"[16] Mojo stated, "There are grand arrangements and barbed bon mots in the style of Randy Newman and Harry Nilsson, but what's most striking are the more restrained moments.

"[24] Laura Studarus of DIY said, "Still, for all his determination to thumb his nose at convention, I Love You, Honeybear finds Tillman falling face first into perhaps the most expected of musical tropes: the "mature" sophomore release.

"[20] AllMusic's James Christopher Monger wrote "Honeybear has the architecture of its predecessor, but features braver melodic choices, and at a pure pop level, is the far more challenging LP of the two, but it rewards the listener constantly.

"[23] Alex Denney of NME said, "Written around the time Tillman got hitched to this girlfriend, it's a hugely ambitious, caustically funny album about the redemptive possibilities of love, and being heartily sick of your own bullshit.