Son Lux, the critically acclaimed project of visionary trio Ryan Lott, Rafiq Bhatia, and Ian Chang, has returned with a new single “Endlessly”, alongside the announcement of their ninth studio album, ‘Out Into’, out September 18th via This Is Meru/City Slang. “Endlessly” is the striking, sonically curious lead single from their most rhythmically sumptuous and lyrically urgent forthcoming album yet. 
Across nearly two decades, Son Lux has earned their reputation for splendour and cinematic sweep, but ‘Out Into’ is something different, with the band leaning into a completely fresh energy, attitude, and colour. The new record stems from a deep reverence for initial creative sparks, treating the very first voice memo version of a song as its most sacred iteration, resulting in a punchy suite of tactile, detail-minded songs born from dazzling moments of collective improvisation.
Son Lux – “Endlessly” (Official Lyric Video)
Commissioned by The Bluecoats, a world-renowned marching ensemble, “Endlessly” is a soaring anthem dedicated to embracing one’s true self. The song’s chorus acts as a reassuring reminder that you can be exactly who you are endlessly. “These songs are about losing and finding ourselves,” Lott reflects. “How we lose ourselves in relationships, in work, in our children, in our pursuits and desires. So how do we find ourselves? How do we find each other?”
These aren’t rhetorical questions, either. “When I say ‘find’, I also mean ‘become’ and ‘change’,” Lott explains.
“We’re continually changing as we learn who we are. That’s partly what ‘Out Into’ means. We come out of something and into something else. Every moment is an exit and an entrance at the same time.”
— Ryan Lott, Son Lux
Upon hearing Lott’s lyrics in the studio, Bhatia felt layers of reality beginning to overlap, as if Lott’s ideas about losing and finding were describing Son Lux’s music-making writ large. “There’s this way in which Ryan is imploring people to have deep human experiences and connections, and run toward those things,” Bhatia says. “And for us, creating is an example of that. His lyrics feel hand-in-glove with how these songs were made. There’s an intimacy to the way we’re consenting to the terms and conditions of modern life.”
Throughout, the intensity of Lott’s verses are flanked by Chang and Bhatia in rhythm section mode, with Bhatia playing bass guitar on a few tracks. “We’re all fans of hip-hop — the boom-bap era in particular,” Chang says. “Stuff that has that gridded-but-not-gridded kind of feel. With our love for pioneers like J Dilla and Madlib, for liquidy beats, we’ve always been drawn to the humanity in it. And with AI changing the music industry so much, we’re interested in making stuff where you hear the hand.”
Their first-thought-best-thought approach on the forthcoming album may come as a surprise to those who have followed Son Lux’s recent ascent through Hollywood’s starrier corridors. They have earned two Oscar nominations and a BAFTA nod for Best Original Score and Best Original Song for A24’s Best Picture winner, ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’, with features from David Byrne, Mitski, and André 3000. Their extensive scoring work also includes Marvel Studios’ ‘Thunderbolts*’ and Amazon MGM Studios’ upcoming ‘Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother’. Beyond film, their hit single “Easy” has been sampled by Halsey on her RIAA Gold-certified track “Hold Me Down”, G-Eazy on “Eazy”, and Fall Out Boy on “Fourth of July”, and reimagined in a version featuring Lorde, while their work has also been commissioned by The Royal Ballet, Kronos Quartet, and the BBC Concert Orchestra.
While this breadth of work has expanded the band’s panoramic vision far beyond the margins of the cineplex screen, it has also inspired Lott, Bhatia, and Chang to return to something more immediate and direct. ‘Out Into’ finds Son Lux occupying a paradoxical zone between vast and intimate, spontaneous and refined, experimental and pop-leaning, as heard on today’s single, “Endlessly”.
In that sense, ‘Out Into’ feels like their most hands-on record to date. The fingerprints are everywhere, reinforcing the refrain Lott delivers on “Out Into Us” in his trembling rasp: “You can slow down.” And you can — slow down, feel things out. Out of something, into something else. The only way forward is change.
From July, Son Lux will embark on a global tour spanning multiple cities throughout 2026 and 2027, with Asia tour dates to come.
‘Out Into’ Tracklisting:
1. Want You To Love
2. Out Into Us
3. Endlessly
4. Even If it Hurts
5. You Could Be The One
6. Summer’s Gone
7. Apparition
8. No God Like A King
