Idylls

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#		Title	Length
1		Illusory Me	4:41
2		Scatter January	4:11
3		Love's Labours Lost	2:29
4		This Endris Night	3:12
5		Forgo	3:08
6		Eudaimonia	3:03
7		Dead Language	4:32
8		Stir About the Stars	3:06
9		Noumena of Spirit	4:10
10		Ladonna Dissima	4:30
11		Drops, Rain, and Sea	3:53
12		Waiting for the Sunrise	3:36
13		And the Wood Comes Into Leaf	4:51

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Description

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... The result of this Easternish atmosphere, with delicate guitar and ebbing, oceanic female vocals is a taste of the watery, warm, and sweet elements of the earth.

Though begun in the late 80's by multi-instrumentalist and producer, Ryan Lum, Love Spirals Downwards didn't truly take flight until the addition of girlfriend-turned-vocalist, Suzanne Perry, in 1991. The duo's 1992 debut release, Idylls, introduced listeners to a sumptuous sound composed of interwoven acoustic and electric guitar textures and exotically layered female vocals which melded the 80's 4AD label sound (Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance) with 60's psychedelic folk rock (Popul Vuh, Jefferson Airplaine) and international music to create a hybrid music well loved by the Gothic and Darkwave community, as well as fans of New Age.

Critics and fans alike have long been fascinated by the mysterious vocal stylings of Idylls, which are by far the most layered and heavily effected of LSD's 4 albums. The band's classic tracks "Scatter January" and "Love's Labours Lost" - as well as a number of others - are lyrically composed of nonsense sounds the duo devised to feign Middle Eastern and Roman languages, while songs like "This Endris Night" and "And the Wood Comes into Leaf" are simplistic reworkings of Medieval classics. "Stir About the Stars" and "Drops, Rain & Sea," while in modern English, still leave quite a bit up to the imagination as far as meaning goes, which is exactly how the band prefers it.

Over their 8 year history, Love Spirals Downwards released 4 albums; "Idylls" (1992), "Ardor" (1994), "Ever" (1996), and "Flux" (1998), plus 1 single, "Sideways Forest" (1996), and 1 retrospective collection "Temporal: A Collection of Music Past & Present" (2000), incorporating the styles of ethereal, shoegazer, folk, world, ambient, and electronica to create a sound uniquely their own.

Comparisons have been made by critics to Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, His Name is Alive, Enya, Enigma, and The Cranes