It was totally worth getting excited about the debut SON LUX album, At War with Walls and Mazes. It's spectacular. The fragile, haunted vocals and skittish paranoia invoked on Break continues throughout, brought to bear with frazzled, ugly guitar on Raise, but offset elsewhere by trilling flutes, funky bass and melodramatic strings.
The album is a swirl of densely layered vocal overdubs, digital spectres of live instrument arrangements and crunching, gunfire percussion. It's a late-night headphone album, for sure. There's no better way to enjoy the electronic grunts and twitters as they eddy and buffet the keening violin, solemn piano or Ryan Lott's weathered, whispered words.
At War with Walls and Mazes is an incredible debut. SON LUX might just be the best new artist of 2008.
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