A lovely piece looking back on how the 1996 release of Love Spirals Downwards’ third album, Ever, affected listeners in Peru has surfaced. Dramatically entitled, “LSD IN LIMA: When the Ethereal Became a Trench”, Wilder Gonzales Agreda recalls how the duo’s ethereal sound arrived in Lima not through radio or TV, but passed hand-to-hand in the underground—photocopied tapes, hidden record shops, and shared rituals of listening that turned the fragile into a form of resistance.

“In a tense, brutal, and ugly city, Ever was like a crack of clean water. Music that didn’t scream ‘resistance’ but was, simply because it taught us we could also inhabit the fragile—that which lasts only an instant but stays tattooed in being forever.”

Part album review, part memoir, it’s an interesting read. Noticed he just posted a new interview with our Projekt label mate, Scott Cortez, as well as a review of Nearfield by my old buddies, Closedown, as well. Check it out!