shut up and listen

• short (34 secs)
• vox dbled and slightly distorted
• lyric: excerpt from later song (weapons)
• minimal instrumentation – harmonica, bass strings

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. opening prologue states theme and lyric
2. vox focus, minimal inst. backing (breath based inst ie harmonica, recorder etc)

• conventional pop elements mixed with experimental electronica
• low register vocals
• simple, repeating lyrics

At War With Walls and Mazes is a stunning debut wrung from classical precision and good old human gut-wrench. Son Lux’s first is a heady collection of songs breathing the same air and sharing the same space; painted from the same palette but set apart still–each is a distinct region of one broad, heaving sonic landscape. From afar, it’s an environment characterized by would-be contradictions: the austere grandness of chamber music undercut by undulating electronica; the intricately orchestral assembled via Hip-Hop collage; a day-plain Pop ease silhouetted by Deep Soul. Up close, it’s clear that these contradictions are what hold the entire work together. Anticon Records. 2008.