Jeff Mills released a new Spiral Deluxe album on March 14, 2025. It is called "The Love Pretender."
Spiral Deluxe is Mills' jazz fusion project with Gerald Mitchell, Yumiko Ohno, and Kenji Jino. The group has been working together since 2014, and the records they make sound nothing like what most people expect from a Jeff Mills credit. There are no 909 patterns, no warehouse kicks, no obvious techno markers. What there is instead is a working jazz quartet with one member who happens to be one of the most important techno producers of the last forty years, and who approaches composition the way he approaches everything else, which is with a lot of ideas and very little filler.
"The Love Pretender" came out on Axis, as nearly everything Mills touches does. The record is part of what is turning out to be the most prolific year of Mills' recent career, which is saying something. He also re-released "i9 (2025 Version)" in December to mark 30 years since Live at Liquid Room Tokyo, and his Tomorrow Comes The Harvest project with Jean-Phi Dary announced a new album called "Forbidden Planet" in February 2026.
The man does not rest. That is the through-line for all of it.
"The Love Pretender" is out now on Axis.
