{"product_id":"early_days_2016_2019","title":"Early Days (2016-2019)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEarly Days (2016-2019) is a 15-track compilation released on December 12, 2025 via Stones Throw Records, collecting previously unreleased and unearthed recordings made by Mauri Tapia — the Oxnard, California multi-instrumentalist and producer behind Los Retros — during his teenage years. All of the material was recorded in his parents' living room using nothing more than an old four-track recorder, giving the collection an intimate, lo-fi warmth that reflects the project's origins as a solo bedroom experiment. The tracklist spans titles like \"Deep Sleep,\" \"Room Gloom,\" \"Old Times,\" \"American Spirits,\" \"Diabla,\" \"To A Lover,\" and \"Within This Love,\" running to nearly 47 minutes and painting a picture of an artist then working through influences spanning indie rock, soul, psychedelic pop, and R\u0026amp;B before fully crystallizing his sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost significantly, the compilation includes the original recording of \"Someone to Spend Time With,\" the song that would become Los Retros' breakthrough — a now Gold-certified single and the track that first brought Mauri to the attention of Stones Throw Records. Also featured is \"Without You,\" accompanied by a companion visual edited by close collaborator Ross Harris from found footage of early Los Retros tour stops, lending the release a documentary quality. Released in the months before Los Retros' proper debut album Odisea (2026), Early Days functions both as an archival curiosity for longtime fans and as a portrait of a remarkably self-sufficient young artist finding his footing — recording fully realized songs alone in a living room years before any label attention, at a time when the band's name was still \"retrospect.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Record Store","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl \/ Album - Hazel Vinyl","offer_id":53459994476858,"sku":"38010","price":40.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD \/ Album","offer_id":53573203624250,"sku":"38218","price":15.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/2041\/0682\/files\/Screenshot_2026-05-15_at_3.24.12_PM.jpeg?v=1780796361","url":"https:\/\/recordstore.ca\/products\/early_days_2016_2019","provider":"Record Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}