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  • Summary: This is the latest full-length release for Emil Amos' solo project Holy Sons.

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The Fact Facer
I'm doubling time I'm spilling my glass There's so many safe ways I'm travelling past I don't need to rest I've been with the worst I've seen them... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  1. Positive: 7 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
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  1. Nov 21, 2014
    90
    Over the course of 11 impeccable tracks, Amos delivers eerily infectious singer-songwriter fare on par with the intelligent and emotionally raw efforts of Nina Nastasia and Sun Kil Moon, but that's polished with studio savvy worthy of Califone or even mid-period Modest Mouse.
  2. 80
    Embracing crippling fear has never sounded so bracing.
  3. Nov 21, 2014
    80
    The Fact Facer is a nuanced, multi-leveled listen that stands with the best things Amos--and anyone covering similarly adventurous terrain--has done.
  4. Nov 21, 2014
    80
    This latest recording is assured and full of intent, seamlessly integrating acoustic guitar blues with a rushing undercurrent of electronic noise, backdropping stark self-revelation with sleek synthesizer arrangements.
  5. Nov 21, 2014
    75
    A whole album of bare arrangements might have been too much to take, but The Fact Facer applies variety and imagination throughout, which doesn't dilute the melancholy, yet ensures that the album doesn't become an overbearing listen.
  6. Under The Radar
    Nov 25, 2014
    75
    This is no ordinary collection of carelessly rattled-out lo-fi clutter. [Sep/Oct 2014, p.81]
  7. Nov 21, 2014
    70
    Songs like "Transparent Powers" and "Selfish Thoughts" find this variety of musical muses floating by beneath Amos' emotive, Will Oldham-esque howl.
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