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Everything Everywhere All At Once - OST

    Everything Everywhere All at Once is the most nominated film at the Oscars in 2023 and the soundtrack is up for “Best Original Score”. A track from the album is also up for an Oscar.

    *Includes “Now We’re Cookin’" (with Randy Newman)
    ∞Includes “This Is A Life" (with Mitski and David Byrne)
    ∞Includes “Fence" (with Moses Sumney)



    TRACK LISTING

    Side A: She Thought Her Life Was Overwhelming Already, But Today It All Changes...

    Side B: As She Connects To Lives She Could Have Led, The Real Challenge Is Making Sense Of This Life Here And Now...

    Side C: She Fights With Incredible Martial Arts, But How Do You Fight The Meaninglessness Of Infinity? *

    Side D: From A Hopeless Place, She Must Learn A New Way To Fight, With Love... ∞

    Arriving at a time of considerable uncertainty in the world, Son Lux's intimate, electro-soul album 'Tomorrows' is ambitious in scope and intent. Born of an active, intentional approach to shaping sound, the music reminds us of the necessity of questioning assumptions, and of sitting with the tension.

    Ryan Lott, Rafiq Bhatia, and Ian Chang train their sights on volatile principles: imbalance, disruption, collision, redefinition. But for all of its instability, ‘Tomorrows’ exploration of breaking points and sustained frictional places is ultimately in service of something rewarding and necessary: the act of questioning, challenging, tearing down and actively rebuilding one’s own identity. Resynthesized strings, acoustically manipulated live instruments and vocals and a classically informed approach to arranging has resulted in an album that feels comfortable, intimate & timeless.

    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.


    TRACK LISTING

    Tomorrows I
    A1. Dissolve
    A2. Plans We Made
    A3. Bending Shadows
    A4. Only
    A5. Days Past
    A6. Honesty
    B7. Into Wind
    B8. Last Light
    B9. Undertow
    B10. Involution

    Tomorrows II
    C1. Warning
    C2. Molecules
    C3. Prophecy
    C4. Leaves
    D5. Out Of Wind
    D6. Apart
    D7. Bodies
    D8. Weight Of Your Air
    D9. Live Another Life
    D10. Borrowed Eyes

    Tomorrows III
    E1. Unbind
    E2. A Different Kind Of Love
    E3. Upend
    E4. Plans We Make
    E5. Glimmer
    E6. Come Recover
    F7. Sever
    F8. The Hour
    F9. Embrace
    F10. Vacancy

    Son Lux

    At War With Walls & Mazes

      Ryan Lott, who’s helmed the synth-rock project Son Lux for the past decade, is the kind of songwriter who can turn the most intimate moments sweeping and majestic. His albums treat crisp, minuscule detail with cinematic grandeur.” Pitchfork…. Around 2008 Ryan Lott asked himself this question: ”Can I make a pop record that doesn’t rely on a verse/chorus formula?” In many ways Lott’s first two releases as Son Lux represent his response to that query. At War With Walls & Mazes and We Are Rising documentone of the most compelling musicians of the 21st century finding a distinctive creative voice, while making strikingly original music along the way. Lott turned to sonic texture as a source of musical sustenance, crafting a dynamic mosaic of sound inspired by the collagist technique of hip-hop beat makers. The soundscapes Lott created merged a panoramic symphonic palette with the propulsiverhythmic urgency of hip-hop.

      The only thing missing was a voice, a role Lott hadn’t intended to fill himself. "Some friends helped me to hear in my own voice something that really worked with themusic,” Lott says. "They've both been out of print for awhile. But more importantly, I'm proud of the music, and I feel like it set the right foundation for my catalogue as Son Lux, so it makes sense to bring it back on vinyl and shed some light on it now that the project has a broader audience."Eleven years after his debut as Son Lux, Joyful Noise Recordings is reissuing these first two works on vinyl. A decade after inception, Son Lux has now shifted from Lott’s singular vision into a three-piece ensemble featuring virtuoso musicians Ian Chang on drums, and Rafiq Bhatia on guitar. But Lott’s initial Son Lux recordings still point toward an exciting musical future that contemporary pop music has yet to realize. 

      TRACK LISTING

      1 Prologue
      2 Break
      3 Weapons
      4 Betray
      5 Stay
      6 Raise
      7 Tell
      8 Wither
      9 Stand
      10 War 1
      1 Epilogue

      Son Lux

      We Are Rising

        Ryan Lott's first two releases as Son Lux, At War With Walls & Mazes and We Are Rising , document one of the most compelling musicians of the 21st century finding a distinctive creative voice, while making strikingly original music along the way. Eleven years after his debut as Son Lux, Joyful Noise Recordings is reissuing the works on vinyl. In the last few years, Son Lux has shifted from Lott's singular vision into a three-piece ensemble featuring virtuoso musicians Ian Chang on drums, and Rafiq Bhatia on guitar. But Lott's initial Son Lux recordings still point toward an exciting musical future that contemporary pop music has yet to realize

        TRACK LISTING

        1 Flickers
        2 All The Right Things
        3 Rising
        4 Leave The Riches
        5 Flowers
        6 Chase
        7 Claws
        8 Let Go
        9 Rebuild

        Son Lux

        Brighter Wounds

          Son Lux reemerge with their forthcoming fifth full-length LP, Brighter Wounds, finding the trio in command of a daring, multidirectional sound, expressing naturally the proclivity for surprise and contrast that characterize the project's output. The new release explores the violence of love, the beauty of sacrifice, and the specter of impermanence.

          Anchored by its cinematic heart, “All Directions,” the album ranges from the thunderous charge of “Dream State” to the sputtering, soulful lilt of “Slowly.” Ryan Lott’s devastating vocal on "Aquatic," guitarist Rafiq Bhatia’s blooming flower melismas on "Labor," and drummer Ian Chang’s nearly inhuman rhythmic calculus on "The Fool You Need" illuminate a curious and delicate balance of precision and pain.

          Since 2015’s Bones, the band's profile has grown in the worlds of music, dance, and film. Each member now charts their respective solo paths, and their individual adventures find a home within the purview of Son Lux. On Brighter Wounds, collaborators range from longtime cohorts Rob Moose (Y Music, Bon Iver, The National) and DM Stith (Sufjan Stevens), to new friends trumpeter Dave Douglas and reedist/instrument builder Arrington de Dionyso.

          Son Lux has made invention its hallmark through continued exploration and experimentation. With Brighter Wounds, the triad NPR proclaimed “the world’s most lethal band" now grips exhilaration and heartache in full embrace. In the words of the album's closing refrain, "is this what the resurrection feels like?"

          TRACK LISTING

          A1. Forty Screams
          A2. Dream State
          A3. Labor
          A4. Slowly
          A5. The Fool You Need
          B1. All Directions
          B2. Aquatic
          B3. Surrounded
          B4. Young
          B5. Resurrection


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