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Dewdrops #16, Spring 98

Love Spirals Downwards “Sideways Forest” CD-Single Review by Brant

Continuing on consistently after Ardor and Idylls, the first EP from Ryan Lum and Suzanne Perry has them once again producing a dreamy mixture of female voice and swirls of guitar. Here, through, and on their wonderful third album Ever, I’d argue they’ve matured and refocussed a bit. “Sideways Forest” is perhaps the most lovely thing they’ve created to date, both nicely grounded and earthy and rising to the ether on jets of blazing guitars. When all is said and done, there will be an ambient remix of every single song ever written. The “Quantum Remix” does this for the preceding track, adding about two minutes in the process. It’s nice and dreamy. The final one, “Amarillo,” almost at once softly subdues you under a spell of half-remembered dreams and cloudy waking-thoughts. It actually sounds a lot like Soul Whirling Somewhere, building up to and melding into a droning fog. Mesmerizing! 10 lilies.

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