Susumu Yokota is one of the very few consistently engaging electronic artists to emerge in the last ten years-- always restless, always changing, and yet always himself. Love Or Die sees him return to a more distinctly "ambient" sound, similar to that found on his classic albums like Sakura and Grinning Cat-- and yet there are new variations and surprising juxtapositions, such as the drum and bass-meets-Windham Hill textures of "The Scream of a Sage..." or the Joe Meek breakbeat of "The Loneliness of Anarchic Beauty..."