Jeff Mills jazz fusion project Spiral Deluxe announces new album, ‘The Love Pretender’

Jeff Mills' jazz fusion project Spiral Deluxe has announced a new album, ‘The Love Pretender’.

Out 14th March on Axis Records, the quartet's new LP — which features an appearance from late French guitarist Sylvain Luc — is themed around "the optimism one can have by simply trusting the process and trusting that everything will work out in the end".

"From AI to the fake personas that populate the dominant platforms, 'The Love Pretender' speaks to a process that is symbolic of the time we’re living in," stated a press release.

Spiral Deluxe is comprised of Mills alongside keyboardist Gerald Mitchell (Underground Resistance/Los Hermanos), Yumiko Ohno (Buffalo Daughter/Cornelius) on Moog synth and Kenji “Jino” Hino (son of jazz trumpeter Terumasa Hino).

Check out a trailer for the new LP below.

'The Love Pretender' is the fourth release for the group, following the 'Kobe Session' (2016) and 'Tathata' (2017) EPs, and their debut 2018 album 'Voodoo Magic.'

Earlier this month, Mills dropped a new four-track EP under his Millsart alias, 'Star Child', which marked the latest instalment in his Axis Expressionist Series of releases and is themed around embracing imperfections.

Meanwhile, a 30th-anniversary reissue of Jeff Mills' 1994 album 'Waveform Transmission Vol.3' was released through Tresor last month. 

The prolific Detroit icon also released a new solo album last year, 'The Eyewitness'.

Read DJ Mag North America's cover feature with Jeff Mills from last October here.