Tomorrows II by Son Lux
As Tomorrows II opens, the listener joins an album already unfolding. The music provides an appropriate parallel for the sustained cacophony of the present moment, advancing a friction that reveals the strange in the familiar and the familiar in the strange. While this carefully crafted inversion acclimatizes the ear to tension, the steadily hardening exterior fractures at unlikely moments, revealing a strikingly visceral, emotional core. The process of creating Tomorrows is iterative in nature, with the lyrical content and music continually adapting and responding to one another and the shifting landscape of the moment.
Tracklist
| 1. | Warning | 3:02 |
| 2. | Molecules | 4:47 |
| 3. | Prophecy | 4:49 |
| 4. | Leaves | 6:22 |
| 5. | Out Of Wind | 1:37 |
| 6. | Apart | 3:32 |
| 7. | Bodies | 2:45 |
| 8. | Weight Of Your Air | 3:26 |
| 9. | Live Another Life | 5:09 |
| 10. | Borrowed Eyes | 1:40 |
Credits
All songs written, produced, and performed by Son Lux
Rafiq Bhatia, Ian Chang, and Ryan Lott
Publisher - Leroy Lott Music (BMI) Administered by Domino Publishing, Rafiq Bhatia Music (SESAC)
Administered by Domino Publishing, Ian Chang Music (BMI) Administered by Domino Publishing
Additional writing on Prophecy by Nina Moffitt (BMI)
Additional Performances by:
Hideaki Aomori - bass clarinet (Apart)
Hanna Benn - voice (Apart, Bodies)
Hamilton Berry - cello (Molecules, Live Another Life)
Eric Byers - cello (Live Another Life)
Nick Dunston - acoustic bass (Molecules)
Andrew Griffin - viola (Molecules, Live Another Life)
Audrey Hayes - violin (Molecules, Live Another Life)
Jackson Hill - electric bass (Live Another Life)
Nina Moffitt - voice (Prophecy)
Riley Mulherkar - trumpet (Leaves)
Hajnal Pivnick - violin, prepared violin (Molecules, Prophecy, Live Another Life, Borrowed Eyes)
Nadia Sirota - viola (Molecules)
Live Another Life includes a sample of SK Kakraba’s “Lubile Prai” courtesy of Awesome Tapes From Africa
Recorded by:
Chris Tabron and Nate Thor Odden, assisted by Augusto Sanchez Jr. at Red Bull Studios, New York
András Makay at SuperSize Recording, Budapest, HU
Pierre de Reeder at 64Sound, Los Angeles, CA
Todd Carder at The Bunker Studio, Brooklyn, NY
Alex Kercheval and Corey Sauer at Postal Recording, Indianapolis, IN
Warning, Prophecy, Leaves, Apart, Bodies and Live Another Life
Mixed by Chris Tabron at Rumours, Brooklyn
Engineer for mix: Brandon Peralta
Molecules, Out of Wind, Weight of Your Air, Borrowed Eyes
Mixed by Ryan Lott
Project Managed by:
Hannah Houser and Michael Kaufmann, This Is Meru
Additional studio support by:
Keir Schmidt
Mastered by Dave Kutch at The Mastering Palace, NYC
Album Art by Mareo Rodriquez
From installation series M.E.L.T.S (Matter Energy Light Time Space)
Additional Layout and Image Editing by Yuanyuan Su
License
All rights reserved.
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.