Josh Tillman, former drummer of the band Fleet Foxes, released his second studio album as Father John Misty (but eighth as an artist)”I Love You, Honeybear” on February 10.

This album is different than his first, “Fear Fun.” “I Love You Honeybear” shows a more settled Father John Misty, but one still struggling with the sarcastic cruelness and big questions of the world.

FJM is in a way, a new man. Bearded, cynical, painfully self-aware, and cliché but not idyllic, he croons about his wife Emma and his American identity.

He references his wife with lyrics: “I love the kind of woman who can walk over a man/I mean like a goddamn marching band” (from “The Night Josh Tillman Came to Our Appartment”) and “My love, you’re the one I want to watch the ship go down with the future can’t be real, I barely know how long a moment is” (from the albums title track.) It is clear through his lyrics that he has found life’s meaning through love.

In terms of influence, Father John Misty invokes styles ranging from the ‘60s British pop of the Beatles to the more recent Bon Iver and Sufjan Stevens to American Singer-songwriters of the ‘80s such as Bruce Springsteen.

Honeybear is a grown up version of the popular indie folk of ten years ago, not necessarily repetitive but definitely loaded with nostalgic notes. Here the listener sees a new FJM, a stripped away version of the wordy artist of his first album. It’s a little all-over-the-place but maintains its identity as an album through FJM’s voice and witty jabs at anything in his sight.

The album was released on the label Sub Pop, which has signed artists such as King Tuff, Clipping., Beach House, and Sleater Kinney.

The songs “True Affection,” “Chateau Lobby #4 (in C for Two Virgins),” “Holy Shit,” and “The Ideal Husband” stand out, among many classic Father John Misty masterpieces.