Love Spirals Downwards - Flux [Deluxe Edition] (2023)    


Review:
…’Flux Deluxe Edition’ features a number of previously unreleased tracks from the ‘Flux’ recording era, a rare 1997 live performance, a brand new 2023 recording, plus remixes from the band’s retrospective album, ‘Temporal: A Collection of Music Past & Present.’ Picking up on the ear-catching, edgy segmented rhythms of the breakbeat wave on Flux, Love Spirals Downward updates their sound, leaving the creative core intact. It’s all about texture in this multi-layered album of Suzanne Perry’s atmospheric vocals, brightly strummed acoustic guitar, and urgent electro-beats. While Perry’s long phrasing meets the moderate rhythms to imply a midpoint, ocean coast sonic waves ebb and flow over the listener intoxicatingly. Indeed, “Sound of Waves” is the name of one of these undulating tracks. Swirling and merging, this duo’s techno-psychedelic (psychedelia implied by the gentle nod of the content without considering their titular acronym) ballads of love lost or failed (“Psyche,” “By Your Side,” and “I’ll Always Love You”) are constructed in a way that owes as much to the accessibility of pop as it does to current forms of electronica. — AMG

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Originally released in 1998, Love Spirals Downwards’ fourth studio album, ‘Flux,’ has been reimagined and expanded in a deluxe edition, meticulously compiled by bandleader Ryan Lum. In addition to the nine original album cuts, listeners can indulge in remixes, a captivating live performance, previously unreleased material, and a fresh rendition of “I’ll Always Love You,” featuring Ryan’s current bandmate, Anji Lum.


   


Track List:
01 - City Moon
02 - Alicia
03 - Sound of Waves
04 - Psyche
05 - Nova
06 - By Your Side
07 - Ring
08 - I'll Always Love You
09 - Sunset Bell (Flux Mix)
10 - Lu Lu
11 - Yajé
12 - A Hui Hou
13 - Misunderstood
14 - Cosmos
15 - Anna Somewhere
16 - Bindu to Ojas
17 - Ergoline
18 - Niyati
19 - I'll Always Love You (Temporal Mix)
20 - Asleep
21 - Alicia (Temporal Mix)
22 - Sound of Waves (Live at ProjektFest)


Media Report:
Genre: dream-pop, electronic
Country: Los Angeles, California, USA
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
Compression mode: Lossless
Writing library: libFLAC 1.2.1 (UTC 2007-09-17)


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