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Amos Pitsch is the frontman with Tenement, a punk/hardcore band from Wisconsin. Formed in 2006, their latest album 'Music Composed For the Motion Picture Smother Me in Hugs was released in 2019.

Pitsch released his debut solo album Lake Effect in 2017. A review quoted on his bandcamp page explains the background to the album:

'Lake Effect' was designed as a sort of conceptual seasonal album. It deals with the feelings and the psyche of the victims of a Midwestern American winter; the ups and downs- the nostalgia, the beauty, the depression, the bitter cold.

A lifetime resident of the Fox River Valley-a geographical region vulnerable to brutal sub-zero winters, and rich with iconic rural midwestern imagery as well as small dusty towns acting as time pieces for decades gone by. The supper clubs, the patch-work farmland, the snow ploughs, ice shanties and road salt are in his blood."

Asked about his fondest Christmas memory in an interview with Post Trash, Pitsch gave this answer: 'Strangely, I think my most enduring memories of Christmas are the dark car rides between visiting relatives and attending church services as a child. Looking out at the empty night whizzing by through the windows and anticipating the following morning with a sense of dreaming that I can hardly fathom now. I also have a really distinct frozen frame in my mind of being a child and climbing a staircase of red carpeting in a large church. Burning candles, red velvet, and feet in dress shoes shuffling around. I guess you could say that a childish sense of innocence about the world that I once had when I was young is my fondest memory.

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from Have Yourself A Merry Indie Christmas Volume I, track released December 8, 2017

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