'There's a time to love and a time to hate, as the book of Ecclesiastes states,... the brain chemistry of HolySons records tends to fluctuate wildly back and forth between these two poles. Whereas there's an intrinsic benefit to vulnerability in art, there's potentially just as much to gain from more stoic forms of expression.
The record's cover depicts an ex-criminal who is finding his way back into the world and meeting with a myriad of his own dread and distrust. The songs largely come from this guarded mode; their coldness is intended and distilled, like a fine wine, for your bitter pleasure.'

...I got to daydreaming about what it would sound like if the next Holy Sons record was produced by someone as inventive as Lee Scratch Perry, or MF Doom, or Carl Sagan for that matter. At the time I'd felt 'Peaceful Life' could've suggested a career of musical pacification and that bothered me. Too much in culture is warped and diluted by the desire to pander to an imaginary audience... but when we retreat to the inner temple of the self, worthwhile art is created. This tension, in itself, is a good platform for an upbeat misanthropic concept record. So for the leaner and meaner genre-hoppers>> Decline of the West. Hybridizers unite!

Recorded at home in the breaks of recording 'Staying True.' The point was to capture every personal aspect that wasn't going into 'Staying True' and achieve a more direct communication. The result is a darker album mostly about aging, death and aloness recorded entirely on four tracks and handhelds. A mix-tape from the half-way house...

'This compilation was originally released to represent a chunk of the home recordings HolySons had produced in the Nineties that had been previously unheard. There was no realistic way to approach releasing a summation of this amount of songs without a ridiculously large box set...so we condensed it into this small snapshot of a much larger chaos.'