[Cover photo credit to Tim Saccenti for Setta Studio]

After paving the way toward a new collection with “Garmonbozia” and “Ingo Swann,” Flying Lotus has surprise releasesdan EP, Spirit Box (Warp). The new project marks FlyLo’s first non-soundtrack release since 2019’s Flamagra.

Fans of Flying Lotus know that Steven Ellison draws from a wide variety of influences. On Spirit Box, the influences remain as disparate as ever. In the past, outer space, anime, and Jean-Michel Jarre would inspire a FlyLo project. This time around, Ellison turned to “the supernatural, the underrated, and the mystical.”

Spirit Box arriving near Halloween is no coincidence, since “it’s a time where everyone gets the chance to transform into something different, something surprising, maybe even something scary.” Ellison “used this EP to morph his sound into something new.”

Ellison recently announced his film Ash will be dropping in 2025 via IFC Films/Shudder, a Sci-Fi Horror starring Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) and Eiza González (3 Body Problem), in which he served as both Director and Composer. He also composed music for and executive produced the Netflix anime series Yasuke and created the theme for Apple’s Magic Johnson doc They Call Me Magic.