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THE SIXTH album from US producer-composer Ryan Lott’s Son Lux is once again a deeply experimental and varied affair.
From Pet Shop synths to bedsit electronica, hip-hop beats and gospel choirs, the songs range across a mind-boggling smorgasbord of genres and styles.
Change Is Everything is a huge euphoric track about falling in deep, while the record’s other big song, You Don’t Know Me, is a histrionic pop tune.
This Time breaks out into percussive beats akin to those of hit West End show Stomp, while White Lies ends with a journey into a kind of industrial dance music.
“Bones is a call to action, a document of personal and collective uprising,” says the publicity blurb. Great, but it’s difficult to concentrate on — let alone take in — the lyrical content when the instrumentation is this busy, showy and overblown.
