Son Lux Announce Out Into, Share “Endlessly,” and Map World Tour

Son Lux are finally moving back from the scoring desk to the album cycle. The trio of Ryan Lott, Rafiq Bhatia, and Ian Chang announced Out Into, due September 18 via City Slang, and shared its lead single, “Endlessly,” alongside a long run of international dates that stretches from summer festival appearances into March 2027.

That timing matters. Son Lux have not released a studio album since the Tomorrows trilogy, and their public profile has shifted sharply since then: their score for Everything Everywhere All at Once brought two Oscar nominations and a BAFTA nomination, and City Slang notes that they also composed the soundtrack for Marvel’s Thunderbolts. A new Son Lux record now arrives with a bigger shadow behind it, but “Endlessly” wisely does not sound like a band trying to make a victory-lap prestige object.

The single is wide-screen but physical, built around the kind of elastic percussion and bent-pop architecture Son Lux have spent years making feel strangely human. City Slang says the track was commissioned by the Bluecoats, the Canton, Ohio marching ensemble, and that origin makes sense: “Endlessly” has the upward-thrusting shape of music designed to move bodies in formation, but it keeps enough odd angles to avoid turning into inspirational wallpaper.

Lott frames the record as a return to first sparks rather than over-polished grandiosity. “We’re going places we’ve never gone before in terms of energy, attitude, color,” he said in the album announcement. “And it all comes from having reverence for those initial sparks, for treating the voice memo version of the idea as the most sacred iteration.” That is a useful lens for a band whose best work often feels engineered and unstable at the same time.

Out Into runs eight tracks: “Want You to Love,” “Out Into Us,” “Endlessly,” “Even If it Hurts,” “You Could Be the One,” “Summer’s Gone,” “Apparition,” and “No God Like a King.” It is billed by City Slang as the band’s ninth album, which gives the announcement a neat tension: Son Lux are deep into a singular catalog, but this cycle feels like a re-entry point after years of film work and pandemic-era sprawl.

The tour is just as ambitious as the rollout. Son Lux will play 29 announced dates across Europe, North America, Mexico, Japan, and Eastern Europe, with mmeadows opening select shows. The U.S. stretch includes Minneapolis, Chicago, North Adams, Seattle, Portland, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and two December nights at Pioneer Works in New York.

More Asia and South America dates are still to be announced. For now, “Endlessly” is the first sign that Out Into may be less about Son Lux proving they can scale up and more about what happens when they pull that scale back toward the nerve endings.