Love Spirals Downwards
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Love Spirals Downwards: 1991 - 1999
Over their 8 year history with Projekt Records, Love Spirals Downwards released four 10,000+ selling albums; Idylls (1992), Ardor (1994), Ever (1996), and Flux (1998), plus the single, Sideways Forest (1996), and retrospective collection, Temporal (2000), incorporating the styles of ethereal, shoegazer, folk, world, ambient, and electronica to create a sound uniquely their own. Band founder and sole musician, Ryan Lum, constantly strove to push the boundaries of LSD's ethereal pop music formula, while Suzanne Perry's otherwordly vocalizations helped to maintain a certain consistancy from album to album. As Lum moved closer to a contemporary pop sound, creative differences arose, eventually resulting in the enlistment of Kristen Perry to complete vocals for the 1998 album, Flux. In late 1999, Lum began collaborating with singer/songwriter, Anji Bee, under the shortened moniker Lovespirals. Lovespirals released their first full-length LP Windblown Kiss in 2002.Band/artist history
Love Spirals Downwards launched their career in 1991 as a flagship band of Projekt Records. Their music was actually begun much earlier by band founder, Ryan Lum, who had studied guitar as a child, jammed in garage bands as a teen, and had been recording music for years on his own 4-track. One fateful day, Ryan recorded the wordless ethereal vocals of Suzanne Perry to one of his instrumentals.
"The first song we ever made was "Forgo," which is on Idylls. I had never written a song before. I just got in there and started humming in the microphone and that's how it happened. And we listened to it and we thought, 'Hey, that's not too bad!' And then we just made a couple more and just sent them out."
Suzanne Perry, Ink Spots #19 (April 1995)
"We weren't trying to be a band, so we were shocked and surprised when there was any response at all. We mailed out the tape to three companies: 4AD, Creation, and Projekt - who we didn't know about, we heard of it through a friend of a friend. Sam wrote us back a letter of interest."
-- Ryan Lum, The Ninth Wave: A Journal of Nocturnal Culture #5 (May 1995)
Indeed, Projekt Records featured two songs on their 1991 compilation, From Across This Gray Land No. 3. These selections immediately garnered attention from fans and critics worldwide, sparking their career as one of Projekt's most successful acts to date.Have you performed in front of an audience?Primarily a recording project, Love Spirals Downwards performed live about a dozen times, generally in conjunction with Projekt Festivals. LSD's last live show was in 1998, in support of Flux.
Your musical influences
Cocteau Twins, Slowdive, Mazzy Star, Mojave 3, SEEFEEL, Dead Can Dance, Everything But the Girl, Massive Attack, LTJ Bukem, Perfume Tree, Led Zeppelin, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Fleetwood Mac, and The Cure.What equipment do you use?
All but the last album, Flux, were recorded on a 1/4" tape 8 track machine.Anything else?
"Dissatisfied with current trends and styles in much of today's pop music, our music is a unique blend of what we find to be aesthetically pleasing. To us, our music transcends any one pigeonhole categorization into one particular style or genre. Elements from East Indian music, psychedelic rock, and ethereal - among others - can be found in our music. In creating atmosphere, we meld "exotically" tuned and processed acoustic, as well as electric, guitars with female vocals and percussion. In breaking with more conventional vocals, we completely abandon the use of language as a conveyor of thought and emotion in hopes that the entire musical piece, instrumental and vocals, work as one artistic expression."
-- Love Spirals Downwards, 1991.RobyFM
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Heya, I covered one of your songs, it's on my page..... I hope you don't mind and don't kill me for not giving justice to it :/ You guys are the best.incredible music !!
best wishes to ya
Dj Headz from Scientek BasementHi, Ryan. THANK YOU!!! Thank you for posting the demo tape for "Kykeon". THANK YOU! I've been looking for any copies of the pre-LSD demos ever since I heard a medley of demos a few years ago. I'd love to hear more demo tracks from that period.that goth rock song you have named something with a "K", i listned to that and it was really really amazing and emotional.
There is a big problem among youth today. That problem is called self-injury and it needs to be addressed. Check out my song "The Final Cut", I'd really like to open some eyes with this song.
I will get back to you soon, just please check out this song and leave feedback and spread the word if you feel what I'm doing.All comments (18)
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This Endris Night is amazing, the guitar is spellbinding and the vocals are hauntingly beautiful. All I could say is maybe lower the vocals a little because theyre so loud that they drownd out the guitars. Great one though. Check out my single "Dreaming of One Night". It's a song about love/heartbreak with very lyrcial rap verses and a singing/screaming choruses. It's something different. Leave feedback. Don't forget the B-Side to that single "I've Only Got One Bullet Left featuring B-Eazy AKA Sik-1". It's more hardcore rap, straight spitting. Please leave feedback! G. Whyte