This Is Lorelei releases his new LP, Holo Boy, today via Double Double Whammy. The album features 10 re-recorded versions of songs from 9 different releases written from 2014 to 2021. With hundreds of tracks to choose from, Nate Amos, who is also one half of the art pop duo Water From Your Eyes, elected not to treat this LP as a best-of, or to spend hours listening back, but instead to pick interesting songs from a long span that are special to him.“The whole idea with this album was that if someone liked a particular song, they tracked down the release it was from. Then, theoretically, it would be a shortcut to an entire album that maybe they would like. It is supposed to be a cheat sheet that makes the back catalog a little more approachable,” he said to UPROXX in a recent profile.
With more ears on his work now, Amos was excited by the idea of a release that would encourage new fans to delve deeper into his discography and allow him to revisit past songs of personal significance. “The songs on Box for Buddy, Box for Star are really similar, and they’re produced in such a way that the differences are accentuated, whereas with Holo Boy, the songs are really different, but they’re produced in such a way that the commonalities are accentuated.”
The themes that underpin these songs and the album format itself challenge conventional understandings of time. So it’s no surprise that Amos views Holo Boy as more of a prequel, sister album, or even shadow self to Box for Buddy, Box for Star, rather than a follow-up.
Upcoming tour dates:
12/17 - Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg - SOLD OUT
12/19 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore ^
3/4 - Sydney, AU @ Mary's Underground
3/5 - Melbourne, AU @ Howler
3/7-9 - Meredith, AU @ Golden Plains 2026
+ w/ Dutch Interior
^ w/ The Front Bottoms