Lost Decade III (1996-2002)

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Dog Dreams Downbeat low-fi downtown DIY 4-track underground outsider goodness.
When the light shines in your eyes. Favorite track: Let's Go Downtown.

bassinspace An great album for the hard core Holy Sons fan. This album is proto-Holy Sons. Some of Emil's early lo-fi work. I listen to this album often. Dead Raccoon always gives me a smile.

Thanks you for releasing this Emil! Favorite track: Luresyafar.

Old James Holy Sons delves into the spirit more than most are willing to venture. This one digs deep. Favorite track: I've Been Cured.

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Rare Home Recordings from 1996-2002. Now Out of Print.

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1.	The Uninhabitable 03:16	buy track
2.	Let's Go Downtown 01:48	buy track
3.	Dead Raccoon 02:11	buy track
4.	Hit the Switch 02:40	buy track
5.	Luresyafar 01:18	buy track
6.	Tears Stupid Tears 03:38	buy track
7.	Compulsion 03:02	buy track
8.	In Search of... 03:14	buy track
9.	I've Been Cured 02:21	buy track
10.	Robbed & Gifted (Ultra-stoned Early Demo) 04:32	buy track
11.	Joke's Been Told 02:54	buy track
12.	Blue Meditation 02:27	buy track
13.	Standing Among the Stones 03:47	buy track
14.	I Notice 04:57	buy track

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"The Lo-fi recording boom rose to prominence in the late 80's when new recording technology brought 4-tracks within teenager's grasp at an affordable price. Then only a few years later, Nirvana opened up the commercial market for underground music and virtually all of the home-recording pioneers stepped out of their shabby environments towards a new horizon of recording studio budgets. Simultaneously the 'lo-fi movement' was proclaimed dead by the press for the next decade. Not until Ariel Pink arrived would people consider the weirdo genre of home-recording ready to be stocked on store shelves again... and in this unfashionable dead-zone is where the Lost Decade series was made in private.

Lost Decade is a rare look into the mountain of recordings Emil Amos amassed while in full-swing of the initial lo-fi revolution. There's a palpable stench of pot smoke swirling around these late-night recordings and a constant sense of supreme alienation. This batch of Lost Decade tapes is taken from a crucial time of Emil's development (1996-2002) that he spends a lot of time going into on his acclaimed podcast "Drifter's Sympathy". These recordings are tangibly haunted and plagued by a distinct sense of 'spiritual trouble'... trapped in amber and mashed into a near-ambient distillation of confusion and suffering."

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released April 20, 2018

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