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An 8 year retrospective of world influenced folk rock, dubby ambient electronica, and mid-tempo drum 'n' bass, featuring ethereal female vocals and dreamy electric/acoustic guitar. Includes album cuts, remixes, live and comp tracks.
Genre:
Electronic: Pop Crossover
Release Date:
2000
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Temporal: A Collection of Music Past & Present
© Copyright-Ryan Lum (BMI)
(617026009728)
Record Label: Projekt Records
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Love Spirals Downwards are the unconscious mind of ethereal music, evoking forgotten memories with subjective, alien tongues. The sounds drift dreamily through one's thoughts like incense permeates the air -- perhaps the spicy fragrance will seduce you like a lover to its heat, or else it will elude the threshold of perception and weave itself into the mind's strata of buried experiences...
Love Spirals Downwards was begun in the late 80's by multi-instrumentalist, Ryan Lum, but didn't truly take flight until the addition of girlfriend-turned-vocalist, Suzanne Perry, in 1991. Two of their three initial demo tracks were featured on the Across this Grey Land 3 comp, garnering international attention from fans and critics alike, and sparking their career as one of Projekt Records' most successful artists to date. Over their 8 year history, LSD released four 10,000+ selling albums; Idylls (1992), Ardor (1994), Ever (1996), and Flux (1998), incorporating the styles of ethereal, shoegazer, folk, world, ambient, and electronica to create a sound uniquely their own.
'Temporal: A Collection of Music Past & Present' is a career retrospective of this seminal ethereal duo's recordings for Projekt Records. From their hauntingly beautiful acoustic world/folk beginnings to their later ambient electronica sound, this compilation covers the entirety of Love Spirals Downwards' unique body of work with 13 tracks compiled and mastered by band founder, sole musician, and producer, Ryan Lum.
Arranged in reverse chronology, 'Temporal' begins with a set of remixes produced by Lum in 1999: "Alicia" - featuring guest guitarist Rodney Rodriguez of The Von Trapps, and "Misunderstood" - a remix of "I'll Always Love You" - which has been almost entirely revamped with zippy breakbeats and the addition of moody saxophone played by special guest, Doron Orenstein, of Monkey Bars. Also included in the collection are several tracks from compilations or EPs ("Asleep", "Mediterrenea", "Amarillo"), plus a stunning live acoustic version of Ardor's "Subsequently". All in all, 'Temporal' is 66 bliss-filled minutes highlighting the unique journey of Love Spirals Downwards' musical progression from 1991 to 1999.
Comparisons have been made by critics to Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, Everything But the Girl, Slowdive, Mojave 3, Mazzy Star, The Sundays, Mono, Sneaker Pimps, Hooverphonic, and LTJ Bukem.
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author: abel gonzalez
Drifting Toward a Romantic Twilight
author: Jeff Stringer, Borders Inside Magazine, Feb 2000
Just as Valentine's day can bring about all kinds of emotions with regards to romantic love, so can romantic music take on many different forms. Such is the case with the duo known as Love Spirals Downwards. They were one of the first acts to exist on the Projekt record label, which has been a specialist in all manner of gothic, electronic, ambient and other various ethereal kinds of music for over 10 years now. From their 1992 debut, Idylls, to 1998's very popular flux, Love Spirals Downwars has always existed in a moody, enchanting universe all its own, thanks to the musicscapes of guitarist/keyboardist Ryan Lun, and the unearthly crooning of vocalist Suzanne Perry. Their earlier releases contain haunting, drifting melodies and layered, melancholy vocals reminiscent of Enya, while later albums incorporate some gentle yet vital dancebeats into the spell. Now, Love Spirals Downwards releases a long-overdue retrospective titled Temporal. It features 13 songs spanning all of their albums and singles, and includes six previously unreleased tracks. It is a comprehensive overview of the duo's many shades. Whether you're relaxing in the dark tranquility of post-first-date bliss, or are swimming in the nostalgia of love lost, this album will help you keep warm.
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A serene reflection on a career bursting with unassuming creative victories.
author: Sean Flinn, Choler Magazine (January 25, 2000)
While music's perpetual evolution occasionally imprisons bands within their niche, Love Spirals Downwards has co-evolved, fearless of adding new tones to its palette and heading off in new directions when dead ends pop up along well-worn routes. "Temporal," a retrospective that includes six previously unreleased tracks, displays the many fine forms resulting from the group's adaptation. Unfolding in reverse chronological order, the album charts the band's growth from a heavily ethereal folk duo with a surplus of goth appeal to its more recent incarnation as an atmospheric drum 'n' bass outfit. In retrospect, the album argues, even the group's earliest, least tangible work was setting the stage for its eventual embrace of electronica. While most groups or labels might have chosen a more obvious approach to the retrospective -- assembling the band's "greatest hits" or strongest single material -- LSD and Projekt have chosen to focus on collecting songs that best reflect the group's transition between styles. With by-now characteristic grace, LSD shows how easily it married its early, almost formless vignettes to the rigid structure of drum 'n' bass and spawned (yet another) sub-subgenre of jungle. All of the songs display a smooth-as-ether ambience, a unifying trait that has long masked this very mellow band's adventurous, survivalist qualities. "Temporal" marks yet another in Love Spirals Downwards' unbroken series of subtle triumphs, a serene reflection on a career bursting with unassuming creative victories.
(For the full review, check out the link to Choler.com!)
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