Two Love Spirals Downwards CDs have been added to the Lovespirals webstore this week. The first is 1998’s Flux, which includes the Kristen Perry co-written song, “Psyche,” that aired on Dawson’s Creek and “Sunset Bell” – featuring Jennifer Ryan-Fuller – which appeared on La Femme Nikita. The second is 1996’s Ever, whose ambient electronica track “Madras” – featuring hypnotic vocals by Suzanne Perry – was selected last year for the iTunes Essentials Shoegaze & Beyond playlist alongside legendary bands Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Jesus and Mary Chain, Lush, and more. Band founder, Ryan Lum, will personally autograph any LSD album sold through the webstore.
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Chillin’ with Lovespirals Episode 23
Ryan and Anji hop back in the saddle for a retooled post-PME extravaganza! The band talk about how they almost missed the big podcasting expo because of Bones, discuss recent song placements on TV, talk about Audio Scrobbler and how it works with both Last.FM and iTunes, John Mayer, getting back in touch with Jennifer Ryan Fuller, upcoming 2007 releases and more! Lovespirals have a funky new outro and a more pro intro this time around, what do you think?
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Lovespirals on new Mp3Tunes Site
Former Mp3.com CEO, Michael Robertson, just launched a new site called Mp3Tunes.com, which offers 192kbps mp3s for just 88 cents, and full albums for $8.88. Check out the site’s entries for Lovespirals and Love Spirals Downwards.
Mp3.com Hot Artist Spotlight
MP3.com is currently running a feature on our DAM CD, Ecstatic EP on their Hot Artist Spotlight station for Jan/2002. The Ecstatic EP was created specifically for MP3.com to compile the Jazz-Step Drum ‘n’ Bass material we created from 1999 – 2000, all of which was lost during a computer meltdown. For those fans of our Jazzy Electronica sound — fear not — we will definitely return to creating Dance tracks in the future. The upcoming album, however, is a totally different sound — more akin to Ryan’s older work, but with a Lovespirals twist. Check out their review:
Perhaps most notably known in the Goth community under the moniker Love Spirals Downwards, with their Cocteau Twins sound. Frontman Ryan Lum has changed their sound, and shortened the name to just Lovespirals. Together with vocalist Anji Bee, Lovespirals has embraced the sound of Drum ‘n’ Bass and created a masterful relationship. Their release, Ecstatic EP, is a combination of sexy Jazz riffs, mellow breaks, and Bee’s seductive vocals. For those fans of Good Looking Records, Lovespirals could easily be found amongst their ranks in talent, and sound.
LSD song on TV!
Love Spirals Downwards’ 1998 Flux track, “Psyche” – featuring the vocals of Kristen Perry – will be used in an episode of Dawson’s Creek on October 10th, 2001. Dawson’s creek airs Wednesdays at 8 PM, on the WB Network.
LSD RadioSpy Interview Feature
March 17, 2000 RadioSpy Interview by Sean Flinn:
“Indie goths gone electronic, LSD’s sound now sketches its past while tracing its future.”
“We’re the first and only for a lot of things on Projekt,” says Ryan Lum, the multi-instrumentalist and driving force behind Love Spirals Downwards, darkwave label Projekt Record’s top-selling act. Lum is sipping on a soda in a RadioSpy conference room and choosing his words carefully. He’s speaking of his band’s use of saxophone riffs on a song from its latest release, Temporal, a career retrospective that includes a number of unreleased tracks. Lum was concerned that Sam Rosenthal, Projekt Record’s sometimes finicky founder, might be less than enthusiastic about the sax track.
“[Rosenthal] actually made a positive comment about the saxophone. He said, ‘You know, it fits somehow,” recounts Anji Bee, Ryan’s self-described “partner-in-crime” and recent collaborator on everything from album art to vocals. Lum’s experimentation — with his sound and with the band’s direction — initially met with grudging acceptance from Rosenthal, who eventually warmed to the band’s new sound.
“It’s not his cup of tea,” Lum says of Rosenthal’s reaction to the band’s shift in sound from “shoegazer,” the ethereal style of feedback- and synth-drenched pop defined by British bands like My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive and the Cocteau Twins, to drum ‘n’ bass. “But we more or less have artistic freedom to do as we please. I guess being the top seller on the label doesn’t hurt us in that,” Lum says with a chuckle.
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