A Home for Scared people is the label run by Jamie Philpin-Jones primarily for releases of his own music. He started releasing music as Veins Full of Static in 2018 with their first ep Is All, released on Disintegration State Records. Since then he’s released seven albums under the VFOS banner on labels such as This Is It Forever, Waxing Crescent and Machine Records along with a split single with worriedaboutsatan on TIIF and split full lengths with Salvatore Mercatante and Two Way Mirrors (aka Tom Ragsdale/Sulk Rooms). They also released a collaboration with Ghost Signs, For the Reverend Jason Molina, on Decaying Spheres in 2022. All these projects can be found on the VFOS artist page.

After an unintended hiatus due to family illness in 2025 Jamie became itchy to get back to releasing music and started the dronjournals project in 2026. A quick, low pressure way to explore new territory, the dronejournals are monthly sonic diaries of what is proving to be a difficult, uncertain period. Life seemed to get in the way of making music, a vital outlet, and the dronejournals offer a chance to rebel and create things quickly and insitinctively. It features ressurected projects, work in progress tracks, sketches, doodles and spoken word pieces stitched together with field recordings that anchor the music in the time and place. It features work from a new hardware focussed project, The Being Afraid, which will be releasing the first music on A Home For Scared People soon.

Jamie’s music is primarily concerned with charting the landscape of grief, memory, depression and anxiety using the language of ambient/drone/electronica. But it’s not as grim as that sounds – often getting swept up in romantic melancholy and getting lost in a thoughtful drift.

VFOS also did the soundtrack to a short film –Yew – written and directed by James Davis in 2022.

Jamie wrote this biography in the third-person to make it sound more professional but now feels rather awkward about it.

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