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  • Summary: The second full-length solo release from Alison Goldfrapp was co-produced with Stefan Storm and Richard X.
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  1. Positive: 5 out of 9
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  1. Record Collector
    Aug 11, 2025
    80
    It sounds immaculately like now and yesterday all at once. [Aug 2025, p.103]
  2. 80
    Whether conjuring aurora borealis through music, “Sound & Light", or crafting pop bangers from vulnerability, she proves that reinvention, when it’s honest, doesn’t need spectacle to dazzle. Think of Flux as an elegant evolution. She’s still dancing, but this time with her heart closer to the surface.
  3. Aug 15, 2025
    80
    The album may not offer the radical reinventions of Goldfrapp's duo work, but it doesn't need to -- Alison Goldfrapp pioneered these sounds, and on Flux, she's still doing them with effortless elegance.
  4. Aug 15, 2025
    70
    Flux is a qualified success, then – an ultra-cool album of moody music to listen to in ultra-cool places. Even if you might not be emotionally heated by the end, it subtly makes its mark.
  5. Mojo
    Aug 11, 2025
    60
    Flux lacks a little of the old uncanny razzle dazzle, but there's no doubting the elegance of its execution or the expertise of its creator. [Sep 2025, p.79]
  6. Aug 11, 2025
    60
    Ultimately, Flux is an elegant yet frustrating album: meticulously shaped, impeccably polished yet feeling distinctly like the product of conceptual indifference at best.
  7. 60
    Although both the solid, retro stylings of The Love Invention and the more delicately dreamy Flux contain some lovely melodies and beautifully detailed production, the woman herself seems less edgily present than she while haunting 2000’s “Lovely Head” or on 2003’s “Strict Machine”.

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