Son Lux
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Son Lux announce new album ‘Out Into’ via City Slang & share new single “Endlessly”, announce world tour, including London show.
Son Lux announce their new album ‘Out Into’, due for release on September 18th via City Slang, and share its soaring lead single “Endlessly”. The track arrives as the band’s first new studio material since receiving two Oscar nominations and a BAFTA nomination for their acclaimed score to Everything Everywhere All at Once, as well as composing the soundtrack for Marvel’s Thunderbolts.
“We’ll find our way.” When Son Lux founder Ryan Lott sings these four words near the outset of the band’s propulsive ninth album, ‘Out Into’, he’s making a vow, charting a course, advancing a philosophy, sealing a promise.
What follows is Son Lux at their most rhythmically immediate, lyrically urgent, and emotionally direct. Across nearly two decades, the trio – Lott, guitarist Rafiq Bhatia, and percussionist Ian Chang – have built a singular catalogue that blurs experimental composition, electronic music, hip-hop production techniques, and art-pop ambition. But while previous releases often expanded outward into sweeping, cinematic territory, ‘Out Into’ turns toward something more tactile and instinctive: a collection of songs shaped from spontaneous improvisation and first impulses captured in real time.
“We’re going places we’ve never gone before in terms of energy, attitude, color. And it all comes from having reverence for those initial sparks, for treating the voice memo version of the idea as the most sacred iteration.”
says Lott.
Today they share “Endlessly”, a soaring anthem dedicated to embracing one’s true self. Commissioned by The Bluecoats, the world-renowned marching ensemble based in Canton, Ohio, the track balances euphoric release with emotional vulnerability, pairing propulsive percussion and towering arrangements with one of the band’s most direct and anthemic hooks to date.
Speaking on the single, Son Lux comment:
“‘Endlessly’ is about surrendering to who you are rather than resisting it. There’s vulnerability in that, but also freedom. The song started as something commissioned for performance, but it quickly became central to the emotional language of the album.”
Recorded in bursts during downtime between film projects, ‘Out Into’ was developed over a two-year period, with the spaces between sessions allowing the songs to deepen in meaning and rhythmic intensity. The result is an album that exists in a paradoxical space between spontaneous and refined, pop-minded and experimental, intimate and panoramic.
“These songs are about losing and finding ourselves. How we lose ourselves in relationships, in work, in our children, in our pursuits and desires. So how do we find ourselves? How do we find each other?”
says Lott.
Those questions pulse throughout the record, from the liquid, dub-inflected unease of “You Could Be the One” to the stark, confrontational closer “No God Like a King”, which directly addresses hypocrisy and White Nationalism in contemporary America. Elsewhere, Son Lux channel their love of hip-hop production and off-grid rhythmic experimentation, drawing inspiration from figures like J Dilla and Madlib while foregrounding the tactile humanity of live performance and improvisation.
“We’ve always been drawn to the humanity in rhythm, Especially now, with AI changing the music industry so much, we’re interested in making stuff where you hear the hand.”
says Chang.
That physicality runs throughout ‘Out Into’. If Son Lux’s recent soundtrack work expanded the scale of their music, this album brings the focus back to touch, breath, and connection.
“Every moment is an exit and an entrance at the same time, That’s partly what ‘Out Into’ means. We come out of something and into something else.”
says Lott.
Photo by Anna Powell Denton
Live dates
JUL 17 — WROSound Festival — Wroclaw, PL
JUL 19 — Phillgood Festival — Plovdiv, BG
SEP 02 — Cedar Cultural Center — Minneapolis, MN
SEP 05 — Sound & Gravity Festival — Chicago, IL
SEP 12 — MASS MoCA — North Adams, MA*
OCT 02 — Crocodile — Seattle, WA*
OCT 04 — Aladdin Theater — Portland, OR*
OCT 07 — UC Theater — Berkeley, CA*
OCT 08 — Pacific Electric — Los Angeles, CA*
OCT 10 — Foro Indie Rocks! — Mexico City, MX*
OCT 25 — Botanique — Brussels, BE*
OCT 26 — Tivolivredenburg, Pandora — Utrecht, NL*
OCT 27 — Huxleys — Berlin, DE*
OCT 28 — Elysée Montmartre — Paris, FR*
OCT 29 — Electric Brixton — London, UK*
OCT 31 — Mtatsminda — Tbilisi, GE
DEC 18 — Pioneer Works — New York, NY
DEC 19 — Pioneer Works — New York, NY
JAN 20 — Shibuya WWWX — Tokyo, JP
JAN 21 — Osaka Conpass — Osaka, JP
MAR 14 — Roxy — Prague, CZ
MAR 16 — Palladium — Warsaw, PL
MAR 17 — Tama — Poznan, PL
MAR 18 — Kwadrat — Krakow, PL
MAR 20 — Kino Siska — Ljubljana, SI
MAR 22 — Slovak National Radio — Bratislava, SK
MAR 23 — Magyar Zene Háza — Budapest, HU
MAR 24 — Quantic — Bucharest, RO
MAR 25 — IF Performance Hall Beşiktaş — Istanbul, TR
* = w/ mmeadows
