This is post-lapsarian rock. Holy Sons is the long-running project of multi-instrumentalist and prolific songwriter Emil Amos, and this is Amos’ second album with Chicago-based Thrill Jockey, following last year’s The Fact Facer. Amos’ music has often seemed to emerge from a troubled limbic system, one where motivation and urges are suspect or warped, where a sense of loss and dread pervade. These recent records push into a far more polished direction than Amos’ earlier collage-istic home recordings. The production has a brittleness—with rim shots from the snare drum, trebly guitars, double-tracked vocals and not a lot of bottom—that adds to the looming feeling of unease. The lovely falsetto, dreamy guitar lines and jazzy drumming seem almost at odds with the sense of paranoia in the lyrics on “Discipline.” The Fall of Man, as the title might suggest, is a dark bummer of a record, but it’s a good downer.