The Patron Saints of the Lost & Lonely

PSOTLAL EP - Free Download!!!
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01 The First Daze.mp3
02 The Way Another Sad Story Goes.mp3
03 Where the Wild Things Are.mp3
04 Black Coffee Blues.mp3
05 Prison Trilogy.mp3
06 My Paradise.mp3
07 The Last Daze.mp3
08 Hiroshima.mp3
Timoshii VS PSOTLAL Live @ The Tally Ho 5/6/82 MPEG2 Video!
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See the PSOTLAL Last.fm page @ http://www.last.fm/music/The+Patron+Saints+of+the+Lost+and+L onely
PSOTLAL started as an idea, which formed into an action, which is now a physical entity. It takes its name from the chorus of Matt’s song, “The Agnostic’s Prayer,” which is as much about alienation from all of “normal society” as it is about seeking out one’s faith. That is the goal of PSOTLAL; to separate itself from all the mundane and seek out those in need of healing. Sounds religious…yet Matthew himself is a self proclaimed Agnostic. Says Matt, “Writing and performing music is the closest to a religious experience that I’ve ever felt. Especially if you’re writing to try and change something about your surroundings. You turn on autopilot and just let the energy channel through you. After writing a song I often have to look back at what I’ve done and say, ‘I don’t know where that came from.’”
The music of PSOTLAL is equally as hard to describe. Throughout most of PSOTLAL’s songs the comfort of warm acoustical instruments are present (Where the Wild Things Are, The Way Another Sad Story Goes, Agnostic’s Prayer) yet at the same time the threat of invasion by sharp hybrid tuned prepared electric instruments looms overhead (Hiroshima, The First Daze, My Paradise.) Says Matt, “I find beauty in what most would consider ugly. I don’t purposely try to demolish the beauty of a song by adding out of sync or noisy parts but sometimes I feel it’s the only way to truly represent what the song is. A song about shitting out a razor blade (see Prison Trilogy in the Music & Lyrics section for more explanation) should not be a pleasant listening experience.”
PSOTLAL is unpredictable, cannot be described and is known for constantly going against the grain. A song during one performance can last 4 minutes while the same song during another performance can last over 10 minutes! The list of influences are too numerous to list them all but the best examples would be the free jazz of Sonic Youth, the vocal delivery and sentimentalism of Tom Waits, the free association lyrics of Bob Dylan, the fucked pop of The Flaming Lips, the humor of Ween, the virtues and politics of Neil Young, the ethics and experimentalism of Fugazi, and the heartfelt honesty of Bruce Springsteen (to name a few!)
PSOTLAL has no commercial potential and they like it that way. They long for the day when music again begins to take chances instead of sucking up to the consumers. No matter where they go, no matter who is or isn’t a member, no matter if its acoustic, electric, 5.1 or mono expect PSOTLAL to continue to be a beacon of light in the clouds of conformity.