Moving from Denver to Connecticut to California to Atlanta to Indiana, Anticon’s Son Lux, like some type of musical big game hunter, has collected a massive amount of sounds, as he claims, “thousands of them.” At War With Walls And Mazes is Lux’s exhibit hall where Ryan “Son Lux” Lott has kept his audio specimens stored like a collection of exotic beasts. Everything from the organs to the pianis to the rusty drum samples on record reflect not only his deep sound pockets but also manifests enthusiasm for allowing his “wild beasts” to ecape their cages and devour one another.

The sliding violins on “Betray” prove Son Lux’s classical training and by skewering his own classical compositions, with grimy hip hop percussion, simultaneously showcases the man who at twelve was covering Nirvana on the piano’s, ecentric grasp on other genres. And, the blazing operatic vocals on “Stand” are beautifully dichotomized by the liquidy riffs which gnaw at the beat. The album’s androgenous vocals do,however, grow dull, especially on “War” where they merely get in the way of listenting to Lux’s unpredictable piano riffs.

Son Lux on At War With Walls And Mazes destroys everything he’s ever learned about music but then again re-learns it with devilish efficiency only to rebuild it in the mold dictated by the voices in his head.

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