Few artists who write music will tell you they don’t write songs, but that’s a claim Son Lux (aka Ryan Lott)—who mixes everything from programmed beats to strings and woodwinds into his music—makes about his work.

“Son Lux doesn’t write songs, per se, in that there are no verses and choruses,” Lott says. “It’s nonbinary, more like plainchant. Simple, small fragments of text and melody. I definitely consider Son Lux pop music, but abandoning song form liberates me from all sorts of other conventions.” Read More