Artist Biography
Prolific songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Emil Amos is active with a wide variety of projects, from avant-garde folk and heavy psychedelia to cinematic electronic music. He developed his long-running Holy Sons from a lo-fi home-recording venture into a more produced, fuller-sounding band across numerous adventurous releases beginning in the early 2000s. Concurrently, Amos formed the instrumental post-rock band Grails, and the group's increasingly ambitious sound has grown to incorporate elements of progressive rock, dub, Italian film scores, and many other genres. He joined folky indie rock band Dolorean and spiritually informed stoner rock band OM during the 2000s, and additionally performed and recorded with artists including Jandek, Scout Niblett, and Jessica Lea Mayfield. Amos explored trip-hop and instrumental hip-hop with his group Lilacs & Champagne, and released two soundtrack-inspired solo albums, Filmmusik (2017) and Zone Black (2023).
Hometown
United States of America
Genre
Alternative