your new favorite band/singer/rapper/player/whatever

an ilm thread for when you're getting into somebody's music and holding your head between your hands like your brains were gonna spill out from ears because how did you, a person who knows his shit pretty much, not already know about this completely excellent music

inspired by how since June this band the Holy Sons have gone from "I think I heard their name once" to "word, dude was in Om, I should check him out" to "I want all their records, right now, because two days in five the three records by them I already have are the only records I want to listen to"

it's one guy playing multiple instruments in a sort of noir-soundtrack groove a lot of the time with mournful greyscale vocals (I don't want to say "monotone" because that's not exactly true but they are kind of muted - even when they rise in pitch/intensity they stay in this very restrained pocket) and sorta addled introspective lyrics which I wanna say are "druggy" but they're not all these-are-my-drug-thoughts it's just that they seem sort of post-personal-apocalypse, like. Aftermathy. I listen to this stuff late at night & love it, listen to it first thing in the morning, love it, I don't keep an all-time-top-ten list but if I were filling out a who-are-your-top-ten-right-now these guys'd be high on the list

I had "Decline of the West", which I bought during the time I was getting pretty into Grails (who he also plays with), but I didn't get too into it. I think the drum machines may have turned me off a little, especially since the dude's a monster on the drums. I've seen the newest one ("Survivalist Tales") in a dollar bin; I'll give it a shot, given your glowing recommendation.