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7.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 13 Ratings

  • Summary: This is the fourth full-length release for the Brooklyn trio led by Ryan Lott.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 13
  2. Negative: 1 out of 13
  1. Jun 23, 2015
    80
    By expanding its sound and not playing it safe, Son Lux has all but stepped into another dimension with this album.
  2. Jun 18, 2015
    80
    Son Lux veers away from the straight forward and chooses to make records as wonderfully complex as Bones.
  3. Jun 22, 2015
    80
    Bones is inventive, unsettling, imposing, and utterly arresting.
  4. Jun 16, 2015
    70
    Son 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.
  5. Uncut
    Jun 24, 2015
    70
    Lott croons plaintive lyrics over weaponised sci-fi soundscapes fizzing with post-dubstep beats, bleeps and electro-classical string flourishes. [Aug 2015, p.80]
  6. Jun 22, 2015
    60
    Though 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.
  7. Jun 23, 2015
    30
    Outside of “Flight” and “Breath Out” all of the good moments are quickly washed out by waves upon waves of utter slog.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. Jun 17, 2017
    10
    I love how they play with music an make me feel like i am in a kind of different dimension. All the songs of ths album are perfect design, butI love how they play with music an make me feel like i am in a kind of different dimension. All the songs of ths album are perfect design, but not a lot of people can appreciate it. Expand
  2. Jun 27, 2015
    9
    A step up from Son Lux's 'Lanterns', 'Bones' is visceral, powerful and wholly unique; a superb album with no duds and some stand-outs in theA step up from Son Lux's 'Lanterns', 'Bones' is visceral, powerful and wholly unique; a superb album with no duds and some stand-outs in the form of 'Your Day Will Come', 'White Lies' and 'Now I Want' Expand