Flux Utopia's 2005 release features one-man band Christopher Maples creating soundscapes hearkening back to '70s forebears as well as more modern creators in the form. Opening "When We Meet" is a slow, meditative chill that sounds less like a friendly meeting and more like a wary confrontation through the mist, soft howls, and plenty of low-key fuzz and reverb filling out the mix. From there Ambium Ad Infinum proceeds to live up to its suggestive name, ranging from short, fairly gentle meditations such as "Let Them In" to lengthy, often minimalist constructions. Three in particular make up the core of the album, with "All Things Past" and "Sum Sirius Simon" acting as ten-minute bookends to the nearly half-hour "Oh Katie, Aspire." "All Things Past" is almost a Lull song in miniature, with the same slow, dark, and at times thoroughly unsettling tones familiar from their work, not to mention that of kindred spirit Thomas Köner. "Sun Sirius Simon" plows a similar field, though perhaps even blackly, with haunting drones stretching out into an endless space followed by a simple but still downright alien-sounding collage of bass groans and militaristic drums. "OK Katie, Aspire," for all the darker shades surrounding it, is much more reflective and calm -- not quite new age bliss but close enough, though the cinematic scope of the piece suggests what space voyages in a happier sequel to Blade Runner would be soundtracked to, concluding on a last triumphant, deliberately paced guitar melody. Meanwhile, relatively shorter songs in comparison, like "Leahrou" with a soft, flowing rise and fall of a soothing core tone, and "Little Star Brightly," which builds suddenly halfway through into a dramatic wash of what could almost be a smoothed-out cascade of static, add to the overall reflective tone of this enjoyable effort.