Son Lux strives to question assumptions about how music is made and construct their own from a molecular level, cultivating a musical language rooted in curiosity and balancing opposites. Over two decades, the band has released numerous recordings marked by raw emotional intimacy and meticulous electronic constructions, and performed at major venues and festivals globally. Son Lux scored A24’s Best Picture winner Everything Everywhere All at Once, for which they were nominated for two Academy Awards and a BAFTA, as well as Marvel Studios Thunderbolts* (2025) and upcoming Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother (2026). This fall, Son Lux will release Out Into, their ninth studio album, and embark on a world tour.

For musicians Kristin Slipp and Cole Kamen-Green, mmeadows is a means of
survival, an outlet to anchor themselves from the currents of life. Fluid and
rhythmic, organic and electronic, their singular alt-pop songcraft is the
synthesis of complementary talents, mutual trust, and years of partnership.
Each brings a distinct background to the sound: Slipp is a current member of
Dirty Projectors, with writing and performance credits on their 2020 release 5
EPs. She grew up in Maine, devoting herself to the choir and a true New
England-kind of work ethic which has since flourished in New York City’s music
community. Kamen-Green has worked with Beyonce, writing and performing
horns on Beyonce and Four, as well as projects with Diana Ross, Harry Styles,
Laurie Anderson, Meshell Ndegeocello, and Taylor Swift. He came up as a ‘90s
kid in lower Manhattan, immersed in the cultures of hip-hop, dance music, and
jazz (his uncle is the avant-garde drummer Joey Baron). All the varying hues of
their influences now filter into Light Moves Around You, the duo’s full-length
debut, a dynamic and deeply-honed collection of pop songs that silence chaos
and celebrate the tender acts of making space and taking care.
Several signatures constitute a mmeadows arrangement: Slipp’s elastic voice,
an instrument innately expressive and commanding, and the duo’s intuitive,
collaborative production style — skittering drum patterns, intricate sound
design, and mood-setting synth suites. Kamen-Green’s mainstay is the EVI
(Electronic Valve Instrument), which allows brass players to control synthesizers
like they would a wind instrument, a subtle breath that gives the group its
symphonic flair.
Following the first mmeadows EP pieced together in 2020, their approach to
Light Moves Around You was more intentional; they adopted a tighter
workflow, recording in a friend’s unfinished farmhouse in upstate New York. As
contemporary chaos spiraled around them, the pair found purpose, nexus, and
peace in making these songs, a cohesive body of work that unfurls and
grooves from the same time and space.

“By Design” presents an observant, elemental tone; interlocked to the horn-
backed beat, Slipp sings of shorelines, greenways, and the secrets that nature

holds, a device to embody her longing for human touch in this age of
automation. “You Should Know By Now” flips the script more bluntly, with the

author lobbing lines to an unrequited crush. The title track, an ode to beauty
on the brink of disaster, finds Slipp at her most meditative, processing the
trauma of 2020 and searching for positive signals in the storm.
Throughout Light Moves Around You, mmeadows play with pacing. Dance-pop
lullaby “Baby-by” mirrors the cycle of insomnia; eyelids hang heavy for the
verses before bursting open at the propulsive chorus. The clear-eyed balladry
of “Working On Me” and “Friendship” gives way to the movement-minded
“Testify” and “Fall Asleep.” The latter has all the hallmarks of mmeadows in one:
the quiet-loud kinetics, the silky phrasings, and the smoldering hooks, closing
on a coda that doubles as the record’s anchoring aspiration: “When you wake
all your worries will melt away, fade away.”