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Jun 23, 2015By expanding its sound and not playing it safe, Son Lux has all but stepped into another dimension with this album.
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Jun 22, 2015Bones is inventive, unsettling, imposing, and utterly arresting.
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Jun 18, 2015Son Lux veers away from the straight forward and chooses to make records as wonderfully complex as Bones.
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Jun 16, 2015Pretentious, yes, but wonderful.
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Jun 16, 2015Bones is a remarkable, chameleonic entity.
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Jun 23, 2015Son Lux’s avant-pop has always leaned more heavily on avant than pop, and Bones is probably too skittery for a breakout commercial hit (though “Change is Everything” could be a dark horse).
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UncutJun 24, 2015Lott croons plaintive lyrics over weaponised sci-fi soundscapes fizzing with post-dubstep beats, bleeps and electro-classical string flourishes. [Aug 2015, p.80]
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Jun 16, 2015Son Lux's remix value is through the roof, settling nicely along the lines of Purity Ring's debut, The xx, or even some of Thom Yorke's solo tracks. That said, each of these examples are revered, but not lived up to.
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Jun 22, 2015Though Bones is almost as dramatic as a standard week on Albert Square--occasionally to its detriment--it’s also impossible to fault this album’s single-minded pursuit of sheer, maxed out saturation.
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Jun 18, 2015There’s so much bone-crunching texture that it claws your ears like a gnarled kitten. Past the theatrical dins of songs like Flight and This Time, though, there are simple pleasures in the cinematic darkness of I Am the Others and the folksier Undone, which strikes a balance between complex rhythms and alluring acoustic guitar licks.
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Jun 30, 2015If Bones is too densely packed to inspire, at least that’s a good quality for a foundation to have.
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Jun 16, 2015Lott falters in steering his compositions to a memorable peak, a hindrance that repeats itself on Bones.
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Jun 23, 2015Outside of “Flight” and “Breath Out” all of the good moments are quickly washed out by waves upon waves of utter slog.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 9 out of 13
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Mixed: 2 out of 13
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