Jeff Mills is Releasing A New Album With His Jazz Fusion Project, Spiral Deluxe

The Detroit techno legend Jeff Mills has announced a new Spiral Deluxe album entitled The Love Pretender. The release will be out on March 14 via Mills’ label, Axis Records.

This is the jazz fusion project's second full-length body of work, coming seven years after their debut, Voodoo Magic (2018). Prior to that, they released two EPs: Kobe Session (2016) and Tathata (2017).

"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," the group stated in a press release.

Beyond Mills, the project has three members: Gerald Mitchell, Yumiko Ohno, and Kenji “Jino” Hino. According to a description penned by the band for their debut album, they use electronic instruments, but “there is no MIDI syncing connection. Each plays their instrument un-attached as if any Jazz or Rock band would play together.”

This is not Mills’ only jazz-forward project, either. In 2018 he collaborated with the late drum kit master, Tony Allen, on the experimental album, Tomorrow Comes The Harvest. 

Plus, Mills has been active as a solo artist in 2025, having just released his latest dance-forward EP, Star Child, back in January. The 30th-anniversary reissue of his 1994 album Waveform Transmission Vol. 3 also landed this past January via Tresor.