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Causa Sui — In Flux
(El Paraiso EPR080, 2025, CD / 2LP)

by Peter Thelen, Published 2025-06-12

In Flux Cover art

It was just  around a year ago that Causa Sui released their previous studio album, From the Source, a single LP with four long tracks, which was followed up by the live document Loppen 2024, and like that one, this latest album, In Flux, is available as a single CD, or a double-vinyl 10-inch 33-1/3 RPM; at only around 50 minutes, it’s too long to be a single LP, but not long enough to justify its existence as a full double LP. The vinyl is a randomly colored marbled swirl, and limited to an initial run of 1200 copies. The players are as they were on previous albums, with Jakob Skøtt on drums, percussion and album artwork, bassist Jess Kahr, keyboardist Rasmus Rasmussen, and Jonas Munk on guitar, synthesizer, as well as the engineering, mixing and mastering. And as always, no vocals (Causa Sui hasn’t had a singer since their second album, Free Ride). Compared to its studio predecessor, In Flux seems to be far more open and spacy, more dreamy and drifty, not as intensely composed — as all great psychedelic albums should be. The first side starts with the fuzz-bass workout, “The Circus Is Back,” a short (under two minute) introductory piece during which the drums and shimmering guitar make themselves known. The next two pieces, “Milkweed’s Pod” and “Silver in the Gathering Light,” round out the A side with increasing power, clarity and brilliant psychedelic guitar pyrotechnics, although the latter is the far more liquid of the two, sounding almost like an Electric Ladyland out-take. Side B contains “Moledo,” the first of two expansive cuts clocking in at around eleven minutes, with keyboards making a prominent showing early on, though Munk’s guitar is making some serious waves just under the surface. The closing side is taken up by the sprawling “Astral Shores,” a jangly, shimmering epic that unfolds over its sixteen-minute duration, building slowly as it turns each corner. Another track, “Spree,” at just a little over four minutes is like no other, beginning with gently dueling synthesizers amid some powerful studio echo, eventually picking up some serious power along its trajectory; on the vinyl, it comes at the end of side C after the bluesy “Boogie Lord’s Revenge,” but on the CD it closes the disc nicely. In Flux is another superb entry in the Causa Sui canon.

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