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9 tracks | 46 minutes
Released Apr 2005
on projekt records
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:14 City Moon lyrics BUY MP3 04:14 City Moon lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:14 City Moon
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:02 Alicia lyrics BUY MP3 04:02 Alicia lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:02 Alicia
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:59 Sound of Waves lyrics BUY MP3 03:59 Sound of Waves lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:59 Sound of Waves
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:25 Psyche (ft. Kristen Perry-Gow) lyrics BUY MP3 04:25 Psyche (ft. Kristen Perry-Gow) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:25 Psyche (ft. Kristen Perry-Gow)
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:47 Nova lyrics BUY MP3 05:47 Nova lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:47 Nova
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:26 By Your Side lyrics BUY MP3 05:26 By Your Side lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:26 By Your Side
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:58 Ring (ft. Kristen Perry-Gow) lyrics BUY MP3 05:58 Ring (ft. Kristen Perry-Gow) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:58 Ring (ft. Kristen Perry-Gow)
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:01 I'll Always Love You lyrics BUY MP3 05:01 I'll Always Love You lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:01 I'll Always Love You
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"Flux" is ambient-tinged electronica featuring ethereal female vocals and melodious guitar work, creating a relaxing, yet envigorating dreamscape of sound to lose yourself in.
Editorial review
Picking up on the ear-catching, edgy segmented rhythms of the breakbeat wave on Flux, Love Spirals Downward updates their sound, leaving the creative core intact. It's all about texture in this multi-layered album of Suzanne Perry's atmospheric vocals, brightly strummed acoustic guitar, and urgent electro-beats. While Perry's long phrasing meets the moderate rhythms to imply a midpoint, ocean coast sonic waves ebb and flow over the listener intoxicatingly. Indeed, "Sound of Waves" is the name of one of these undulating tracks. Swirling and merging, this duo's techno-psychedelic (psychedelia implied by the gentle nod of the content without considering their titular acronym) ballads of love lost or failed ("Psyche," "By Your Side," and "I'll Always Love You") are constructed in a way that owes as much to the accessibility of pop as it does to current forms of electronica. ~ Tom Schulte, All Music Guide
Bio / Background
Love Spirals Downwards was begun in the late 80's by multi-instrumentalist, Ryan Lum, but didn't truly take form until the addition of vocalist, Suzanne Perry, in 1991. Over their 8 year history, Love Spirals Downwards released 4 albums; Idylls (1992), Ardor (1994), Ever (1996), and Flux (1998), 1 single, Sideways Forest (1996), and 1 retrospective collection Temporal (2000), incorporating the styles of ethereal rock, world music, ambient/new age, and electronica to create a sound uniquely their own.
LSD were part of the first generation of bands to grow up with home recording studios. As technology became more sophisticated, so did their music. By 1997, band founder and sole musician, Ryan Lum, acquired access to a full range of technological advances, including computers and digital audio recording. His embrace of technology helped lead to this 4th album's electronica base.
↓ more ↓Inspired by the drum 'n' bass style of LTJ Bukem, Spring Heel Jack, and Everything But the Girl, Lum developed startling new material that combined the band's trademark heavenly female vocals and ether-bliss guitars with trip hop, drum 'n' bass and dubby electronica beats. This album marked a distinct turning point in Lum's songwriting and brought the band closer to a contemporary pop sound than previous efforts.
Vocally, longtime collaborator Suzanne Perry fronted 3 nicely poppy cuts and provided sample food for 3 others, while Kristen Perry made her first official appearance on 2 very strong cuts (one of which, "Psyche," was used by the WB Network show, Dawson's Creek, in 2001), and Jennifer Ryan Fuller's 1994 performance was called upon for a remake of "Sunset Bell." The world flavor of days gone by really only popped up in "Alicia," featuring nice acoustic flamenco licks by Von Trapps guitarist, Rodney Rodriguez, as well as the strangely evocative Spanish/nonsene vocals of S. Perry. With it's hip, upbeat electronica sound, 'Flux' undeniably distanced the band from the ethereal darkwave genre which they'd been so closely tied to in their past. Critics have compared the sound of Flux to Mono, Sneaker Pimps, and Hooverphonic.
In 1999, Lum remixed two of his favorite tracks from Flux ("I'll Always Love You" and "Alicia") which were later released on the post-mortem CD, Temporal: A Collection of Music Past & Present.
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