Once a professional motorbike racer, Steve Roach became one of the indisputable leaders in contemporary electronic music. His extensive catalog shifts ever so subtly to include tones and ideas that travel from the desert plains of the southwestern United States into the pulsing orbs of space, with a particular interest in tribal sounds. Fever Dreams is part of a trilogy recorded at Roach’s studio in the Arizona desert. The loops are gentle and often nearly subliminal. The nearly 19 minutes of “Wicked Dream” that opens the album is a study in tranquility. The rhythmic loop suggests a looming danger, while the bass guitar, played by Patrick O’Hearn, is the seemingly only independent instrument, as a gentle wash of recurring synths mimic the winds. “Fever Pulse” is the album’s shortest cut at ten and a half minutes. The dream begins to pick up momentum with a near- German motorik rhythm to match the agitated swaths that interrupt the placid surfaces. “Tantra Manta,” the album’s tour de force at just under thirty minutes, creates a seductive pulse for meditating.