At War With Walls and Mazes is a stunning debut wrung from classical precision and good old human gut-wrench. Son Lux"s first is a heady collection of songs breathing the same air and sharing the same space; painted from the same palette but set apart still--each is a distinct region of one broad, heaving sonic landscape. From afar, it"s an environment characterized by would-be contradictions: the austere grandness of chamber music undercut by undulating electronica; the intricately orchestral assembled via Hip-Hop collage; a day-plain Pop ease silhouetted by Deep Soul. Up close, it"s clear that these contradictions are what hold the entire work together. Anticon Records. 2008.