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- Summary: The third full-length studio release for producer Ryan Lott as Son Lux includes contributions from Gem Club's Ieva Berberian Mutemath's Darren King, Lily & Madeleine, The Antlers' Peter Silberman, DM Stith, The Punch Brothers' Chris Thile, and yMusic.
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- Record Label: Joyful Noise
- Genre(s): Electronic, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Electronic, Neo-Psychedelia
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| Memory rushes in, then washes you away I am losing you to the sea I'll break from the weight of my mind, but your ghost I will gladly bear and with... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 7 out of 8
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Mixed: 1 out of 8
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Negative: 0 out of 8
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Oct 29, 2013In giving his compositions a little more leeway to spin and pirouette with maximum emotional force, Son Lux has made his best album to date and proven the wisdom of waving goodbye to restraint once in a while.
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Oct 31, 2013Lanterns is Lott’s most cohesive work, his music a prism refracting light onto the spectrum of change.
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MagnetNov 27, 2013It doesn't feel resolved by the unexpectedly bone-chilling ending, beckoning another listen. [No. 104, p.59]
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Oct 29, 2013It’s an exhausting listen, alternately frustrating and overwhelming. But it’s never boring.
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Oct 31, 2013Plan The Escape and No Crimes are largely uplifting, though the descending bass line and drum combo on Crimes sounds like Queens Of The Stone Age doing Go With The Flow Light; and pseudo-ripped Depeche Mode lyrics like, “All you ever wanted, all you ever need” make for the album’s most clichéd moment.
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Oct 29, 2013It is hard to parse all that's disparate here, and in searching for its most personal form, Son Lux unwittingly dipped into the uncanny valley of digital music trying to become human--something a little too perfect to believe.
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Nov 4, 2013I can’t help but feel that, like a lot of fine art, Lanterns has been constructed to be admired from a distance.
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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Jun 22, 2015
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