Forgotten Foundation is the second album by Bill Callahan (also known as Smog), released in 1992 on Drag City. It is the last album that Callahan recorded at home.
Brain Howe wrote for Pitchfork when the LP was reissued in 2005:
..For newer listeners, it should be stressed that young Bill Callahan was very different from the mellow miniaturist of Supper and A River Ain't Too Much to Love. This is Smog at his lo-fiest and no-waviest, his most misogynistic and malicious. If you dislike the bookends of Accumulation: None, the distortion-drenched echo chamber "Astronaut" and the toneless no-fi dirge "Hole in the Heart", you should steer clear of Forgotten Foundation. But if you find those songs strangely magnetic for their sheer contrariness, and wonder how the competent, tranquil Smog of today earned his reputation for musical and lyrical malice, you'd do well to begin here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfClRy_7Jnc&list=OLAK5uy_kfDmAQWYTMEZ0Dld8vYU3Pz6kvNX_vSkA
