The kind of act that gets under your skin is Munich-based project Luminary Flux. You drink your first cup of coffee one moment, and the next moment you are driven off into a paygoda of riffs, verses, and synth flashes, which not only bend genre quite literally but also imagination. Their next single, Back Before Breakfast (out August 12, 2025) is a playful, high-energy alt-pop-rock experiment with hip-hop undertones – a humorous, high-energy song about time travel, regrets and the present as a gift.

Instead of getting serious, Luminary Flux finds the strength of big questions through the fun prism. What would you go do with a time machine before breakfast? Rewrite history? Correct your mistakes? Aspire to another version of yourself? The song plays about such questions, and finally arrives at the reassuring point of realizing that here and now is all we truly possess.

Since the initial guitars hook is so punchy, “Back Before Breakfast” proclaims itself to be a celebration. Synth flourishes create some sparkle that keeps the tonality light-hearted, and rap verses interweave with some witty asides which keep the listeners smiling. It is not a song that cannot be appreciated without close introspection– it is one that lives on ironic humor, and finds absurd imagery to point out something that exists: the fact that as human beings we have a desire to start anew.

Luminary Flux is unique as a combination of hard-crafted and easy-to-play elements. They do not burden the listener with existential dread, but rebrand the chaos of life and make something to laugh and dance and sing along. The narration is not accidental — all bars and hooks and invitations to the listener on the way to a good mood, even when discussing what-ifs and missed opportunities.

It is a time when a lot of artists are inclined towards cynicism, but Luminary Flux reminds us that it is a radical decision to decide to be joyful.

Folded Waffle draws this release into the current, offering listeners a closer encounter with the artistry of Luminary Flux. For those arriving fresh and those already attuned to their path, this track opens a space of focus and resonance that cannot be ignored.

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