Anji and Ryan of the Lovespirals are one of my favorite independent bands around. Their sound is so easy and relaxed, it totaly cools you down. Their latest album Long way from Home, is absolutly fabulous. This band totaly earns all the support we can give them!
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Anji and Ryan have really hit their stride with their third release, full of Anji's trademark soulfulness but with a guitar emphasis that really works. The album is very polished and crystal clear.
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The sun rises blue on Lovespirals' new album, moving you into a contradictive state of swaying in groovy rhythms, inducing romantic notions of blues bars and cocktail lounges, while you discreetly wipe a tear from your eye.

This Lovespirals seeks to move you, not leaving out one layer of your body; they reach out to the emotional, physical and spiritual; offering soothing empahty for our at once universal and utterly personal pains of life, loss, lonlieness, and love.

The Sun is blue here because the sadness that is explored is not darkness , it is Life. It has been said that Chaos is simply the lack of recognition of patterns, and that with just a bit of perspective, even the most chaotic is beautiful again. Sadness is the same.

So put on this Lovespirals album to help bring a beautiful pattern to the sadness we all have found at one point or another in our lives. 'Long Way From Home' is quite simply: Beautiful Sadness.
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It's very rare these days to come across an entire CD which you will listen to over and over from beginning to the end non-stop, and even rarer to find one which makes you want to grab everyone you know and tell them "you must listen to this."

However such is the case with the third release, Long Way Home, from the California based duo Lovespirals, consisting on Anji Bee on vocals and Ryan Lum on instruments.

Fusing sounds from jazz, chill, folk, Americana and even a touch of country, this latest release will grab you and wrap you in an aural blanket of warm and a soothing hand on the brow that shows off why the indie music scene is our salvation from the commercial corporate music machine, and Lovespirals as one of it's shinning stars.

From the opening jazzy/country sound of the aptly named "Caught In The Groove", to the groovy feel of "This Truth", to the lazy summer afternoon feeling of "Sundrenched" this CD is a wonderful blend of vocals and music coming together in an intertwining dance of harmony deftly expressing emotions in both delivery and composition.

Perhaps the one track that shows off their ability to combine emotion with production is the track "Motherless Child", which had been released as a remix by MoShang on his Asian Variations CD earlier this year. On the Long Way Home version, Lovespirals have gone with a less is more approach and stripped the song down to the barest and starkest in this presentation.

Anji's emotion filled delivery holds nothing back in delivering the full emotion of grief and loss. While Ryan's haunting and simple layered guitar work echoes her delivery, but neither overpowers the other, and the two come together to powerfully capture the feeling of being alone and isolated.

Throughout Long Way Home, the duo convey a wide range of feelings and emotions as words and music come together or swirl around and through each other in a mesmerizing dance of audio.

Lovespirals have found the perfect balance, resulting in a release that never falters from one track to the next that is rare these days, and is the perfect aural vacation everyone should take at least once a day.
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