LUX INTERNA
NEW WILDERNESS GOSPEL / SECOND SINGLE RELEASE
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Dear Friends,
We hope this finds each of you weaving your own secret worlds of wonder, despite the disenchanted—and deeply disenchanting—state of things. In times like these, may we all do our part in taking good care of each other.
We’d like to take a moment to thank you all for your support, kind words, and interest in Lux Interna—it really means the world to us. And a special heartfelt thanks to those who’ve pre-ordered the album. After a prolonged period of being hermits, it’s been incredible to share our music, make new friends, and reconnect with old ones.
I’ll keep this brief (a rare feat for me) because we want to share our second single, Like Wolves. Take a listen, hit reply, and let us know what you think. Below, you’ll find the official lyric video, along with a raw, intimate recording—one of the very first times we played the song through, back when it was still taking shape. This is the first time we shared this acoustic version, so you’re the first to hear it!
Thank you for listening.
Much love,
Joshua & Kathryn
Like Wolves
Official Lyric Video by Kathryn Ian
Like Wolves is an invocation of hunger, wildness, and transformation—a spiritual howl in the dark. Both a love song and a battle cry, it haunts the liminal space between sainthood and savagery, where the sacred and the profane tangle together in the fever of the desert night.
Written on a restless road trip through the Mojave, the song channels the energy of its vast expanses and all-night dives. Headlights cut through dust; a neon cross flickers in the distance; static-soaked blues haunt the radio waves with warnings from the past.
Like Wolves swaggers forward with a warped vision of reverbed 1960s surf guitars, soaring strings, lurching Shangri-Las-esque basslines, and hypnotic rhythms, swerving recklessly between darkness and light, desire and devotion, before converging in an ecstatic embrace of a truth beyond all dualisms.
This song is about learning to look unflinchingly into the fiercer face of love—learning to be truly alive. While wandering the high desert, we spent time in the company of wolves at a rescue shelter. Though exiled from their native lands, they remained untamed—ferociously alive, alight with something far wilder than mere survival. Looking into their eyes, we saw the same fire we sought to feed within us. This song translates sparks of that fire into sound.
When your world starts to fall apart, you're forced to make a choice—capitulate or create. Either submit, or bare your teeth and let the wild in. But first, you have to find the space within yourself that is still feral, still free.