labels

drag city records are releasing my music. dragcity.com

but for my previous recordings since 2001 i worked with the labels below:

secretly canadian records
secretlycanadian.com

too pure records
toopure.com / beggarsgroupusa.com
other sites

for more music: myspace.com/scoutniblett
fan site: scoutnibletttheprince.com

Holysons was built to be an occult personality. It had to be a paradigm where I could express things that could avoid the filtering suffocation of the deadly mainstream. The 80's were an amazing time for the underground and I remember feeling that it was all building up to something enormously grand,.. a pinnacle of freedom and psychic expression.... what happened? - Perhaps it was an entirely natural process that an almost autonomous underground would be killed off to make way for this new uglier than ugly beasts we know as the indie-farm team era. Was it Thoreau who said 'all good things are wild and free' ...er was it the Sun City Girls?...
Anyhow, that thing we saw back then has been crystallized in my retina ... Holysons started around '92 after my hardcore band broke up and I started recording songs on my four-track alone (in Chapel Hill,NC where I grew up). For complex reasons of laziness, self-righteousness, depression, anarchism and megalomania I never gave any recordings to labels. Years and more years went by and along the way I recorded around a thousand songs. I probably played about four or five shows total in the nineties due to a dislike of stages and some vague, yet paralyzing, paranoia. Around the time I moved to Portland, OR in '99 I started meeting people that wanted to help put out some of these recordings. So, over the next couple years three records were released but we sort of forgot to give them to anyone at all including the local papers. The HolySons mind is troubled with the equation:: 'if one despises the general ideas and machinery behind the magazines and various devices of publicity,.. then how can one summon the desire to be a presentable entertainer represented in these said venues?'... The first three records will soon fall out of print but, for now, are still available.
We began somewhat of a new chapter with the release of 'I Want to Live a Peaceful Life' because HolySons gained larger distribution and Grails (my other band) was signed to a couple visible labels around that time. It is most likely that HolySons will never operate like a normal careerist band (paid promotion/much touring)... but ironically an artist's longevity seems to thrive on their disregard of normality or careerism. I'm editing a comprehensive album of the lost songs from the nineties to document that era; look for it's release in the coming year or so. Thanks for listening. 10-4

"I write songs some are simple some are not some are nostalgic some come from dark places some are written from your perspective some from mine some switch back and forth some I play a lot some never some were written in stairwells of parking garages some were written at a friends parents cabin some were recorded in your bedroom some in my basement some took a long long time to finish some I knew before I wrote them some I have forgotten some I haven't learned yet some make me shiver when i hear them some i cannot sing some are allegorical some of them are earlier versions of a different song but sound nothing alike some are so encoded so that you cannot figure out it is about you some are so obvious that you cant figure out it is about you some are about love as and idea some are about love as an action some are musically modeled after the progression of a relationship between two people some were written in a very small room in Maine"