Son Lux
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Son Lux share new single "No God Like A King" taken from their new album ‘Out Into’ out September 18th on City Slang. World tour announced.
Son Lux return with "No God Like A King," the third single and album closer of 'Out Into', which is due for release on September 18th via City Slang - their first studio album since scoring Everything Everywhere All At Once, which earned the band nominations for two Oscars and a BAFTA.
"No God Like A King" brims with a seething energy belied by its sludgy, screwed sonics. A one-take performance by the band was stretched and slowed to form the core of this song about hypocrisy in America, closing the album with a distinct fearlessness. It’s a sound like nothing Son Lux has made before and yet could only have come from them.
“We're all fans of hip-hop — the boom-bap era in particular,”
drummer Ian Chang says.
“Stuff that has that gridded-but-not-gridded kind of feel. With our love for liquidy beats, we’ve always been drawn to the humanity in it. And with AI changing the music industry so much, we’re interested in making stuff where you hear the hand.”
'Out Into' is Son Lux's ninth album, and their most rhythmically sumptuous, lyrically urgent work yet. Across nearly two decades, Son Lux has earned its reputation for splendour and sweep, but 'Out Into' is something different: a punchy suite of tactile, detail-minded songs born from dazzling moments of collective improvisation.
Recorded in bursts during downtime between film projects, 'Out Into' was brisk work stretched out over a two-year span, the gestation periods between studio sessions allowing the group's rhythms to sink deeper into the pocket while Ryan Lott's lyrics became more saturated with meaning.
"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?"
he says
"When I say 'find,' I also mean 'become' and 'change,'"Lott explains. "We're continually changing as we learn who we are. That's partly what Out Into means. We come out of something and into something else. Every moment is an exit and an entrance at the same time."
These first-thought-best-thought strategies might come as a surprise to anyone who's followed Son Lux's recent adventures through Hollywood's starrier corridors. Composing the Oscar-nominated soundtrack for Everything Everywhere All At Once in 2022, Marvel's Thunderbolts in 2025, and current work on Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother's recent track "Now I'm Listening" ft Bilalhere:
The forthcoming feature directed by Bassam Tariq, has broadened the band's panoramic vision, but also made Ryan Lott, Rafiq Bhatia and Ian Chang yearn to craft a Son Lux album that felt more immediate, more direct. 'Out Into' finds Son Lux in a paradoxical zone between big and small, spontaneous and refined, experimentally-minded and pop-spirited.
The first two singles, "Endlessly"and "Want You To Love", introduced the album's themes of transformation, connection and change.
With "No God Like A King", Son Lux reveal another facet of 'Out Into', bringing the record to a close with one of its most fearless and rhythmically urgent moments.
Photo by Anna Powell Denton
Son Lux live dates
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
