SON LUX
Share new single “Want You To Love”
Album ‘Out Into’ out September 18th on City Slang
World tour includes London show
Following the release of their soaring first single “Endlessly”, Son Lux return with “Want You To Love“, the latest offering from their forthcoming ninth album, ‘Out Into’, due for release on September 18th via City Slang.
“We’ll find our way.” When Son Lux founder Ryan Lott sings these four words at the opening of “Want You To Love”, the first track on ‘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. “Want To Love” is a beat-heavy, slow-motion disco of a song that drives relentlessly from start to finish, it finds Lott’s lyrics, sung in both wails and whispers, grappling with betrayal of self and others through the pursuit of wealth.
Speaking on the single, Lott comments: “Want You To Love” is a banger built on a couple bits of band improvisation, flipped like samples. The result feels more boom-bap than anything we’ve done in the past, and it’s as close I’ve come to screaming into a mic. It’s a song about how we trade what is priceless for things of no value. Why is it so easy to forget ourselves?”
The track arrives as the band’s latest new studio material since receiving two Oscar nominations and a BAFTA nomination for their acclaimed score to Everything Everywhere All at Once. Alongside the forthcoming album, Son Lux continue to expand their work in film, having recently been announced as the composers for Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, the forthcoming feature directed by Bassam Tariq.
Across nearly two decades, the trio of 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.
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,” says Lott. “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?”
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,” says Chang. “Especially now, with AI changing the music industry so much, we’re interested in making stuff where you hear the hand.”
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,” says Lott. “That’s partly what ‘Out Into’ means. We come out of something and into something else.”
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
More Asia and South America Dates TBA
‘Out Into’ track list:
1. Want You To Love
2. Out Into Us
3. Endlessly
4. Break Bread
5. Even If It Hurts
6. You Could Be The One
7. Summer’s Gone
8. Apparition
9. No God Like a King
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