From the Toolkit of Lovers: It’s a great dirty joke. On his second album as Loidis , Brian Leeds presents himself as a colossal figure straddling the club and home-listening universes, never losing sight of these 12 sprawling tracks’ function as DJ tools while letting romance poke through with lush pads and addictive chord-snaps. His weight shifts just slightly in the direction of the club, perhaps owing to the aversion to ambient music he’s shown in recent interviews; nothing feels like it’s there just to be pretty, and the palette is stark black and white with occasional flashes of primary colors. But if this isn’t quite the album to nudge the minimal revival back towards the “land of goosebumps and sex” that Leeds’ hero Vladislav Delay opened up on his 2000 epic Vocalcity , it’s at least a milestone in the revival’s ongoing development.

Leeds came to fame in his very early twenties as Huerco S.…