http://soundcloud.com/bilricks/becoming-yourself

love this song, please keep this kind of stuff up SL

Written by Foxanne 
Produced by Derrick Braxton

Additional Keyboards- Kaiaga Benu
Backing Vocals- "Jones"

Twin Peaks

This track was created by Ryan Lott, aka Son Lux, as part of his participation in The Art Assignment, a production of PBS Digital Studios. Watch this video to find out more: http://youtu.be/6kihTBtHxEc

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The Art Assignment

Lyrics:
WE WAKE WITH BRIGHT EYES NOW
OURS IS A WHITE LIES TOWN

THEY TAKE HOLD OF OUR YOUNG
THEY CUT OUT OUR TONGUE
OH, HOW WE ARE DECEIVED
WE’RE STRONG AND WE’RE FREE

AND AS THEY SHARPEN THEIR SWORDS
WE FOLLOW THEIR LEAD

AND WHAT WE SWALLOW, THAT WE BECOME
AND WE ARE WHAT WE ALLOW

BUT WE WAKE WITH BRIGHT EYES NOW,
OUR IS A WHITE LIES TOWN

THEY TAKE HOLD OF OUR YOUNG
THEY EMPTY OUR LUNGS
OH, HOW WE ARE MISLED… AND MISLEADING
WE’RE STRONG AND WE ARE FREE

AND WHAT WE SWALLOW, THAT WE RECEIVE
THE FRUITS FROM THAT TREE
AND WHAT WE FOLLOW, THAT WE BECOME
WE ARE WHAT WE’VE BECOME

BUT WE WAKE WITH BRIGHT EYES NOW
OUR IS A WHITE LIES TOWN 

WE WAKE WITH WIDE EYES NOW
WE ARE THE WHITE LIES NOW

About the track:
"I have a sweet spot in my heart for this song. White Lies is maybe the most archetypical Son Lux song on the record, to my ear. But lyrically, it feels different than anything we’ve done. Its initial flickers of life were fragments of recordings we made of Ian’s improvisations. The first was a tiny squeaking, rattling sound I discovered in one of the mic channels, which turned out to be his squeaking hi-hat pedal, combined with the sound of his keys on the floor next to his foot (I think!). A half year later, at the end of another take at another session, just before the engineer stopped recording, Ian threw his sticks down on his floor tom and started laughing. The gesture sounded amazing, so I grabbed that little piece of audio and it became an important aspect of the rhythmic texture of the song. A song emerged slowly from these kinds of unlikely, rather inauspicious seeds." - Ryan Lott

White Lies

Lyrics:

LET'S BE ANYONE BUT US TONIGHT
TRADE THIS HEAVY CAGE OF BONES FOR FLIGHT

AND WHEN THE SIRENS REACH OUT FOR US,
WE'LL BE FAR AWAY

OH, WHAT A NOISE WE'LL MAKE
DROWNING OUT OUR MISTAKES
WE CAN'T ERASE
THIS IS THE CHANCE WE TAKE
WE SHOUT AND OUR BONES WILL BREAK
WE CAN'T REPLACE

ARE WE NOW WHAT WE'LL BE?
ARE WE FIXED OR FREE?

LET'S BE ANYONE BUT YOU & ME TODAY

About the track:
This was the last song to be completed on Bones, though it emerged from a couple small ideas began years ago. We wanted to evoke an urgent departure, running down the street, a longing for reckless abandon. There is an escapism here that is naive and ecstatic, but also serious doubt that change for the better is attainable. By the end, the guitar extends the voice's reach, yearning with greater violence and desperation.

Flight

Wildhood - Double Dark

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production by @josiahkosier and vōx
mastering by @vermaasaudio
photograph by David Gomez Maestre

i think i died this week
the earth slipped away
i didn't leave
you didn't stay
you didn't stay

i think i died this week
the lights dimmed out
i didn't scream
you didn't shout
you didn't shout

it was the loneliest occupation
only my soul to keep me warm
and the mumbling and the shaking
wouldn't let up til i was born
til i was born
til i was born

i think i died this week
but i can't be sure
i wasn't chaste
you weren't pure
you weren't pure

I Was Born

Reemerging in 2017 with four new tracks, Son Lux’s new EP 'Remedy' is the ferocious trio’s response to an ever-encroaching reality of social and political upheaval. Reflective but defiant, Ryan Lott, Ian Chang, and Rafiq Bhatia synthesize their signature unpredictable experimentation into an explosive examination of what it means to live, to create, and to resist in America today. These songs were born the week of the 2016 election, and they capture a band both mournful and refusing to accept the new normal. "How does it feel, to be your own deceiver," Lott whispers in our ears, just ahead of the steady approach of swarming, mechanized woodwinds and rising torrents of noise. "I watch you fall, hollow and depleted. A city razed/raised, to bury you beneath it.”

The EP's final statement is a plea, sung in unison with a crowd-sourced choir of more than 300 people. "Find your voice, in the sea of surging bodies and breath, to form a melody, to find a remedy."

In that spirit, Son Lux will donate all proceeds of the sales of 'Remedy' to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of American society.

Remedy

Stolen

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All The Right Things

released by @artsandcrafts
produced by @alexandervincentmusic + @itsmevox
mastered by @vermaasaudio
photograph by Katy Shayne

I Am Not A God EP: https://vox.lnk.to/IAmNotAGod

Life in me
A time without my vices but still holding
Life in me
A time when I’m not losing but still folding

And am I
And am I worthy to grow another
And am I worthy to grow grow grow

Life in me
Do I know anything except you
Life in me
Does it matter anyways
Do I accept you

And am I
And am I worthy to grow another
And am I worthy to grow grow grow

Do I have it in me
Do I have it in me
Are you in me
Are you in me
Do I have it in me

Life In Me

The  Way  Out

listen on all streaming platforms now: https://vox.lnk.to/IHidInHim

produced & mixed by @alexandervincentmusic
written by @itsmevox
mastered by @vermaasaudio
photograph by Katy Shayne
released by @artsandcrafts

lyrics:
I'm the one who hides
I hid in him
shelter or vices
we could be poisoned
or passionate
it's impossible to tell
impossible to tell

I'm the one who hides
I hid in him
master or I live
we could be half asleep
or heightened
it's impossible to tell
impossible to tell

I'm the one who hides
here I am
savior or benefit
I could be everything
or every whim
it's impossible to tell
impossible to tell

This Body

I Hid In Him

From the start, Son Lux has operated as something akin to a sonic test kitchen. The band strives to question deeply held assumptions about how music is made and re-construct it from a molecular level. What began as a solo project for founder Ryan Lott expanded in 2014, thanks to a kinship with Ian Chang and Rafiq Bhatia too strong to ignore. The trio strengthened their chemistry and honed their collective intuition while creating, releasing, and touring five recordings, including LPs Bones (2015) and Brighter Wounds (2018). A carefully cultivated musical language rooted in curiosity and balancing opposites largely eschews genre and structural conventions. And yet, the band remains audibly indebted to iconoclastic artists in soul, hip-hop, and experimental improvisation who themselves carved new paths forward. Distilling these varied influences, Son Lux searches for equilibrium of raw emotional intimacy and meticulous electronic constructions.

All The Right Things

Son Lux

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