SON LUX
– Sign to City Slang
– Announce new album ‘Brighter Wounds’
for February 9th release
– Share first track ‘Dream State’
– Tour dates announced including London’s Scala
Today Son Lux join the City Slang fold for their new album, ‘Brighter Wounds’, confirmed for February 9threlease. The announcement comes with a first track from the album and accompanying lyric video, “Dream State“as well as news of a February European tour – details below.
‘Brighter Wounds’ finds Son Lux transformed all over again. Last time around, on 2015’s exultant and explosive ‘Bones’, Ryan Lott’s genre-defying solo project became a bonafide band, igniting his volatile mix of electronic pop, unusual soul and outright experimentalism. This fifth album marks another fundamental shift as Lott leaves universal themes behind to write from a personal perspective. While making these songs, he became a father to a baby boy and lost a best friend to cancer. Days of “firsts” were also days of “lasts,” and the normal fears of first-time parenthood were compounded by a frightening new reality—Lott’s son arrived shortly after Election Day. These songs draw on all of that: warm reflections of a fading past, the pain of still-present loss, and a mix of anxiety and hope for a future promised to none. Fittingly, guitarist Rafiq Bhatia and drummer Ian Chang help deliver Son Lux’s most dynamic, inviting album yet.
The anthemic roar of first cut “Dream State” provides instant uplift. A triumphant shout blasts through a cloud of synths, plus woodwinds and brass from the yMusic crew (who appear throughout ‘Brighter Wounds’), amidst the song’s ideal vision of youth—“Invincible skin, it’s how we all begin”. The track is accompanied with a lyric video by Son Lux’s now long-time collaborators, The Made Shop.
If Son Lux’s previous album ‘Bones’ provided a skeleton, then ‘Brighter Wounds’ has imbued it with blood and breath. It will be available on February 9th via City Slang and is available to pre-order here: https://sonlux.lnk.to/Br
Son Lux live dates:
Feb 12 – Milan, IT @ Magnolia
Feb 13 – Lausanne, CH @ Les Docks
Feb 14 – Zurich, CH @ Mascotte
Feb 15 – Lyon, FR @ Epicerie Moderne
Feb 16 – Nantes, FR @ Stereolux
Feb 17 – Brussels, BE @ AB
Feb 18 – Lille, FR @ Aeronef
Feb 19 – Paris, FR @ La Cigale
Feb 20 – London, UK @ Scala
Feb 22 – Amsterdam, NL @ Melkweg
Feb 23 – Hamburg, DE @ Gruenspan
Feb 24 – Berlin, DE @ Lido
Feb 25 – Cologne, DE @ G9
Feb 26 – Munich, DE @ Ampere
Feb 27 – Warsaw, PL @ Niebo
Feb 28 – Prague, CZ @ MeetFactory
Mar 01 – Vienna, AT @ Arena
Mar 02 – Budapest, HU @ Dürer Kert
Mar 03 – Istanbul, TR @ Salon
‘Brighter Wounds’ album artwork:
‘Brighter Wounds’ track list:
A1. Forty Screams
A2. Dream State (Lyric Video)
A3. Labor
A4. Slowly
A5. The Fool You Need
B6. All Directions
B7. Aquatic
B8. Surrounded
B9. Young
B10. Resurrection
Son Lux on social media: https://sonlux.lnk.to/F
Son Lux web site: https://sonlux.lnk.to/We
Featured Photo Credit : Alex Spence
