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Birth name
  
Ryan Lott

Music group
  
Sisyphus

Name
  
Son Lux


Years active
  
2008–present

Occupation(s)
  
Singer, producer

Music director
  
Paper Towns

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Genres
  
Post-rockalternative hip hoptrip hop

Associated acts
  
Sisyphus, Lorde, Boots (musician)

Role
  
Musician · music.sonluxmusic.com

Albums
  
Lanterns, We Are Rising, At War with Walls & Mazes, Original Music from and Inspir, Bones

Profiles

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Son Lux is a band founded by Ryan Lott and consisting of him, Rafiq Bhatia, and Ian Chang. Son Lux has released four LP's At War with Walls & Mazes (2008), We Are Rising (2011), Lanterns (2013), and Bones (2015).

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History

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The debut album from Son Lux, At War with Walls & Mazes, was released on Anticon in 2008. Following this release, NPR named Son Lux "Best New Artist" on their program All Songs Considered.

The second Son Lux album, We Are Rising, was released on Anticon in 2011. It was recorded in 28 days for the RPM Challenge and was described by Consequence of Sound 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 his "haunting rendition" of Black Water was featured in JNR's flexi-series. Simultaneous with the announcement that Son Lux would be joining Joyful Noise, TEAR, a conceptual 7" featuring one new song in two distinct parts was released. The album Lanterns was released on October 29, 2013. The album includes vocals from then label-mate Cat Martino of Stranger Cat. The lead single "Lost It To Trying" was immediately named one of Pitchfork's Best New Tracks.

In 2014, Son Lux released the EP Alternate Worlds, which contained re-imagined songs from Lanterns, including a version of "Easy" with vocals by Lorde. In later 2014, Glassnote Records announced worldwide signing of Son Lux. In 2015 Ryan Lott of Son Lux was featured on The Art Assignment in a project that invites viewers to work collaboratively around music that he wrote for the program.

Working as a trio with Ian Chang on drums and Rafiq Bhatia on guitar, Son Lux released a fourth album, Bones on June 23, 2015.

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.

Albums

  • At War with Walls & Mazes (Anticon, 2008)
  • We Are Rising (Anticon, 2011)
  • Lanterns (Joyful Noise, 2013)
  • Sisyphus (Asthmatic Kitty/Joyful Noise, 2014) (with Serengeti & Sufjan Stevens, as Sisyphus)
  • Bones (Glassnote, 2015)
  • EPs

  • Weapons (Anticon, 2010)
  • Beak & Claw (Anticon, 2012) (with Serengeti & Sufjan Stevens, as S / S / S)
  • Alternate Worlds (Joyful Noise, 2014)
  • Stranger Forms (Joyful Noise, 2016)
  • Remedy (Joyful Noise, 2017)
  • 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 a mixtape released by Boots (musician) which featured Son Lux on the track Troubled World
  • References

    Son Lux Wikipedia