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Across nearly two decades, Son Lux has earned its reputation for splendor and sweep, but Out Into (release date: September 18, 2026) is something different: a punchy suite of tactile, detail-minded songs born from dazzling moments of collective improvisation.

“We’re going places we’ve never gone before in terms of energy, attitude, color,” founder Ryan Lott says. “And it all comes from having reverence for those initial sparks, for treating the voice memo version of the idea as the most sacred iteration.”

These first-thought-best-thought strategies might come as a surprise to anyone who’s followed Son Lux’s recent adventures through Hollywood’s starrier corridors. Composing the Oscar-nominated soundtrack for Everything Everywhere All At Once in 2022 and Marvel’s Thunderbolts* in 2025 has been painstaking work — and while it may have broadened the band’s panoramic vision beyond the margins of a cineplex screen, it also made Lott, Bhatia, and Chang yearn to craft a Son Lux album that felt more immediate, more direct. And so Out Into finds Son Lux in a paradoxical zone between big and small, spontaneous and refined, experimentally-minded and pop-spirited. “We always want to walk that line of strangeness and familiarity in a way that’s exciting for the listener,” says Chang, “because it’s exciting for us.”

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From the start, Son Lux has operated as something akin to a sonic test kitchen. The Academy Award® and BAFTA-nominated band strives to question deeply held assumptions about how music is made, and reconstruct 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 six records, including Brighter Wounds (2018) and triple album Tomorrows (2021). The result is a carefully cultivated musical language rooted in curiosity and balancing opposites that 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. Son Lux scored A24’s Best Picture winner Everything Everywhere All at Once for which they were nominated for two Academy Awards and a BAFTA. The full score album features new collaborations with Mitski, David Byrne, Randy Newman, and Moses Sumney, among others. They recently scored Marvel Studios’  Thunderbolts* and Bassam Tariq’s upcoming Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother.