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

        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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