Son Lux is an American experimental band. Originally the solo project and moniker of founding member Ryan Lott, the band's first three albums, At War with Walls & Mazes, We Are Rising and Lanterns, shaped the band's unique sound through post-rock and electronica influences.

With the release of their fourth studio album, Bones, in 2015, Rafiq Bhatia and Ian Chang joined Son Lux, transforming the project into a three-piece band. After the release of their EPs Stranger Forms and Remedy, the band's fifth album, Brighter Wounds, was released in February 2018. The band composed the music for the 2022 science fiction action film Everything Everywhere All at Once, which received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Score at the 95th Academy Awards.

History 
Son Lux started in 2008 as the moniker and solo recording project of American musician and composer Ryan Lott. Their debut studio album, At War with Walls & Mazes, was released in March of that same year. Following this release, NPR named Son Lux "Best New Artist" on their program All Songs Considered.

Lott then released the second album We Are Rising on May 17, 2011, recorded in the entire month of February for the RPM Challenge. Adam Kivel, writing for Consequence of Sound, described the album as "the dark, operatic middle ground between Owen Pallett and In Rainbows-era Radiohead or Wild Beasts' fantastic, operatic heights."

Son Lux signed with Joyful Noise Recordings in May 2013, the same month that their "haunting rendition" of "Black Waters" was featured in the eponymous flexi-disc series released by Joyful Noise. After the announcement of Lott joining Joyful Noise, the project released "TEAR", a conceptual 7" featuring one new song in two distinct parts. Lanterns was then released on October 29, 2013. It includes vocals from then label-mate Stranger Cat, the musical project of Cat Martino. The lead single "Lost It To Trying" was named one of Pitchfork's Best New Tracks.

In 2014, Son Lux released the extended play Alternate Worlds, which contained re-imagined songs from Lanterns, including a version of "Easy" with vocal contributions from Lorde. Later in 2014, Glassnote announced that they had signed Son Lux worldwide. Additionally, Lott composed the score and soundtrack for the 2014 film The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby.

In 2015, Lott was featured on The Art Assignment in a project that invites viewers to work collaboratively around music that he wrote for the program.

Son Lux's fourth album, Bones, was released on June 23, 2015. With the release of the album, the project transformed into a trio when touring members Rafiq Bhatia and Ian Chang joined Lott as members of the band.

On July 15, 2016, Son Lux appeared on stage at the Montreux Jazz Festival as a guest of Woodkid at the "Woodkid and Friends" evening.

On April 7, 2017, the band released the song "Dangerous", simultaneously announcing the song as the lead single from their fourth EP, Remedy, which was released on May 12. On December 15, 2017, a song titled "Eazy" by hip-hop artist G-Eazy was released featuring sampled audio from "Easy".

Son Lux released their fifth album, Brighter Wounds, on February 9, 2018, on their new record label, City Slang. The album received a review of 7.3 out of 10 points on Pitchfork.

On April 5, 2019, Son Lux released a box set with one of their earlier labels, Joyful Noise Recordings, that has two reissued early albums and a new album of unreleased recordings, Remnants. In May 2020, the collection entitled Reincarnates was released. This collection, much like Remnants consisted of previously unheard or rare tracks, including three reworkings of "Change is Everything" from the Bones album, and a new version of "Remedy" (entitled "Remedy, Surging Sea", and included a crowd-sourced choir of over 300 voices).

In February 2021, Son Lux announced that their next album, Tomorrows III, would be released on April 16, 2021, and was scheduled to be the final album in the Tomorrows trilogy of albums. Tomorrows III was released on the scheduled date.

In 2022, the band composed the musical score for the film Everything Everywhere All At Once. The 49-track soundtrack released on April 8, 2022, and includes collaborations with Mitski, David Byrne, a flute-playing André 3000, Randy Newman, Moses Sumney, and yMusic, plus others. The score was nominated for Best Original Score at the 95th Academy Awards, where it lost to Volker Bertelmann's score for All Quiet on the Western Front.

Members 
 Ryan Lott – producer, composer, keyboards, vocals (2008–present)
 Rafiq Bhatia – guitars, producer, composer (2015–present; touring member ?–2015)
 Ian Chang – drums, producer, composer (2015–present; touring member ?–2015)

Discography

Studio albums 
 At War with Walls & Mazes (Anticon, 2008)
 We Are Rising (Anticon, 2011)
 Lanterns (Joyful Noise, 2013)
 Bones (Glassnote, 2015)
 Brighter Wounds (City Slang, 2018)
 Tomorrows (City Slang, 2020–2021, 3-parts release)

Soundtrack albums 
 The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (Lakeshore, 2014)
 Everything Everywhere All At Once (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (A24 Music, 2022)

EPs 
 Weapons (Anticon, 2010)
 Alternate Worlds (Joyful Noise, 2014)
 Stranger Forms (Joyful Noise, 2016)
 Remedy (Joyful Noise, 2017)
 Dream State (City Slang, 2018)
 The Fool You Need (City Slang, 2018)
 Yesterday's Wake (City Slang, 2018)
 Labor (City Slang, 2019)
 Tomorrows Reworks (2021)

Compilations 
 Remnants (Joyful Noise, 2019)
 Reincarnates (2020, a collection of previously unheard or rare tracks)
 Alternate Forms (Joyful Noise, 2023)

Other 
Tear (7", Joyful Noise Recordings 2013)
Black Waters (flexi-disc series, Joyful Noise Recordings 2013. Black Waters is based on a tune of the same name by American folk singer Jean Ritchie)
WinterSpringSummerFall 2014, is a mixtape released by Boots, which featured Son Lux on the track "Troubled World"

Music videos 
 "Break" (2008)
 "Stay" (2008)
 "Wither" (2009)
 "War" (2009)
 "Weapons VII" (2010)
 "Lost it to Trying" (2013)
 "Alternate World" (2014)
 "Lanterns Lit" (2014)
 "Lost it to Trying (Mouths Only Lying)" (2014)
 "Easy" (2014)
 "Change is Everything" (2015)
 "You Don't Know Me" (2015)
 "You Don't Know Me (Jailo Remix)" (2015)
 "Undone" (2016)
 "Cage of Bones" (2016)
 "Breathe Out" (2016)
 "Dangerous" (2017)
 "Ransom" (2017)
 "Slowly" (2018)
 "All Directions" (2018)
 "The Fool You Need" (2018)
 "Yesterday's Wake" (2018)
 "A Different Kind of Love" (2021)
 "Plans We Made" (2022)
 "Undertow" (2022)

References

External links 
 

Anticon
American film score composers
American male film score composers
American rock musicians
Joyful Noise Recordings artists
City Slang artists
Artists from New York (state)
American experimental musicians
Alternative hip hop groups
Anticon artists
Glassnote Records artists
손 럭스()는 미국의 밴드이다. 원래 손 럭스는 라이언 로트가 1집 《At War with Walls & Mazes》, 2집 《We Are Rising》, 3집 《Lanterns》까지는 혼자 활동하였으며, 포스트 록과 일렉트로니카를 연주하는 손 럭스만의 독특한 사운드를 만들었다.

이후 2015년 네 번째 정규 음반인 《Bones》가 발매되면서 라피크 바티아와 이안 창이 손 럭스에 합류하게 된다. 익스텐디드 플레이(EP) 《Stranger Forms and Remedy》가 발매되고 2018년 2월이 되었을 때엔 5집 앨범 《Brighter Wounds》를 발표하였다.

역사 
손 럭스는 2008년 미국의 음악가이자 작곡가인 라이언 로트의 별명을 사용한 솔로 프로젝트로 시작되었다. 이후 첫 정규 음반인 《At War with Walls & Mazes》를 3월에 발매하였다. NPR은 프로그램 'All Songs Seeped'에서 손 럭스를 베스트 뉴 아티스트로 선정하였다.

로트는 2011년 5월 17일 2집 《We Are Rising》을 RPM 챌린지를 하면서 제작해 발매하였다. 컨시퀀스 오브 사운드에서 글을 기고하는 애덤 키벨은 이 음반을 "오웬 팔렛과 In Rainbows에서의 라디오헤드나 와일드 비스츠의 중간지점"이라고 설명하였다.

손 럭스는 2013년 5월 조이풀 노이즈 레코딩사와 계약을 맺었으며, 같은 달 "haunting rendition"과 "Black Waters"를 플렉시 디스크로 출시하였다. 로트가 조이풀 노이즈와 계약을 맺었다는 소식 이후, 두 부분으로 나뉜 하나의 신곡을  7인치 레코드에 담은 "Tear"를 발매하였다. 3집인 《Lanterns》도 2013년 10월 29일 발매하였다. 여기에는 당시 같은 레이블에 있었던 스트래인저 캣의 보컬이 작업에 참여하였다. 이 앨범의 리드 싱글 "Lost It To Trying"은 피치포크가 선정한 베스트 뉴 트랙 중 하나로 선정됐다.

2014년, 손 럭스는 로드의 보컬 참여가 된 노래 "Easy"를 포함한 익스텐디드 플레이 "Alternate Worlds"를 발매하였다. 이후 2014년 손 럭스는 글래스노트 레이블과 계약했다고 발표했다. 또 로트가 영화 엘리노어 릭비의 사운드트랙에 참여하였다.

4집 음반인 《Bones》는 2015년 6월 23일에 발매되었다. 이 음반의 발매와 함께, 원래 투어 멤버였던 라피크 바티아와 이안 창이 밴드 멤버로 합류하면서 3인조 그룹으로 변하였다.

2017년 4월 7일, 손 럭스는 노래 "Dangerous"를 발표하는 동시에, 5월 12일, 네 번째 EP인 《Remedy》의 리드 싱글로 수록하였다.

손 럭스는 2018년 2월 9일 새 레이블인 시티 슬랭을 통해 5집 음반인 《Brighter Wears》를 발매하였다. 이 음반은 피치포크에서 10점 만점에 7.3점을 받았다.

2019년 4월 5일, 손 럭스는 6번째 음반 《Remnants》를 발매하였다.

구성원

현재 멤버 

 라이언 로트 - 프로듀서, 작곡가, 키보드, 보컬 (2008-현재)
 라피크 바티아 - 기타, 프로듀서, 작곡가 (?-2015까지 투어 멤버, 2015-현재)
 이안 창 - 드럼, 프로듀서, 작곡가 (?-2015까지 투어 멤버, 2015-현재)

디스코그래피 

 At War with Walls & Mazes (안티콘, 2008)
 We Are Rising (안티콘, 2011)
 Lanterns (조이풀 노이즈, 2013)
 Bones (글래스노트, 2015)
 Brighter Wounds (시티 슬랭, 2018)
 Remnants (조이풀 노이즈, 2019)

EP 

 Weapons (안티콘, 2010)
 Alternate Worlds (조이풀 노이즈, 2014)
 Stranger Forms (조이풀 노이즈, 2016)
 Remedy (조이풀 노이즈, 2017)
 Dream State (시티 슬랭, 2018)
 The Fool You Need (시티 슬랭, 2018)
 Yesterday's Wake (시티 슬랭, 2018)

이외 

 Tear (7인치 음반, 조이풀 노이즈, 2013)
 Black Waters (플렉시-디스크 시리즈, 조이풀 노이즈, 2013)
 WinterSpringSummerFall (부츠가 믹스테이프 형식으로 발매했으며, 손 럭스는 수록곡 "Troubled World"를 피처링하였다)
 Reincarnates (2020, 밴드캠프 전용 컬렉션)

뮤직 비디오 

 "Break" (2008)
 "Stay" (2008)
 "Wither" (2009)
 "War" (2009)
 "Weapons VII" (2010)
 "Lost it to Trying" (2013)
 "Alternate World" (2014)
 "Lanterns Lit" (2014)
 "Lost it to Trying (Mouths Only Lying)" (2014)
 "Easy" (2014)
 "Change is Everything" (2015)
 "You Don't Know Me" (2015)
 "Undone" (2016)
 "Cage of Bones" (2016)
 "Breathe Out" (2016)
 "Dangerous" (2017)
 "Ransom" (2017)
 "Slowly" (2018)
 "All Directions" (2018)
 "The Fool You Need" (2018)
 "Yesterday's Wake" (2018)

각주

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