You can now buy Lovespirals’ brand new album, Future Past, exclusively from the Lovespirals webstore! This gorgeous 6-panel eco-friendly digipak includes all of the song lyrics plus beautiful photography by Susan Jennings and original artwork/design by ithinkitsnice, while the CD itself was replicated using real-time glass mastering and vintage CD manufacturing equipment for audiophile-class sound, care of Groove House Records. Ryan and Anji of Lovespirals will personally autograph your copy if you request it, and they will throw in an immediate digital download of the album for every order placed on their site. In keeping with this green release, the band will package orders in non-bleached mailers made of 90% recycled content (50% post-consumer).
Future Past will also be distributed via Projekt Records, CD Baby, Amazon, iTunes, eMusic, Rhapsody and all the usual online music sources, but the band wanted to make the album available to fans as soon as possible. As an independent band, it is difficult to schedule simultaneous release on all platforms, so those will be trickling in over the next few months. Please join the Lovespirals mailing list to keep up with the latest news, events, and more.
Lovespirals’ long awaited 4th full-length album,, Future Past, will be available for sale Tuesday November 17 exclusively on lovespirals.com, with iTunes, eMusic, Amazon etc to follow soon. As always, Ryan and Anji will personally autograph your CD if desired. And as a special bonus, all who purchase Future Past from lovespirals.com will receive a free download of the album (in 256k mp3 format) to enjoy immediately.
Future Past is the band’s first-ever digipak release and they are thrilled with the results. Featuring elegant artwork designed by ithinkitsnice (who designed the latest album and singles for Blu Mar Ten), with stunning photography by long-time band photographer Susan Jennings, and printed on a high end multi-color offset press to luxurious, yet eco-friendly, 100% recycled Enviroboard™ by Groove House Records, this is one album you will truly appreciate owning in physical form.
Eco-Friendly 6-Panel Digipak of Future Past by Lovespirals
Jason Moore has posted a review of the original 1992 Projekt Records release of Idylls to his Opus Zine. The following is just an excerpt. Read the full review on the zine’s website.
Let’s get the obvious out of way: the Cocteau Twins are Idylls’ most obvious point of reference, particularly Treasure and Victorialand. Ryan Lum’s guitars create the same sort of jawdroppingly gorgeous soundscapes as those produced by Robin Guthrie, Suzanne Perry’s gorgeous voice echoes Elizabeth Fraser’s gossamery glossolalia, and beneath it all, there’s the cold, artificial thump of a drum machine (which serves only to highlight the music’s ethereal aspects).
See that little window at the top of the stairs? That’s the room where most of Ardor was recorded and mixed, back in 1993-1994. This is a Victorian flat in San Francisco.
Love Spirals Downwards vocalist, Suzanne Perry, will be singing with Exit at Elysium in Austin, Texas on Friday September Friday 26. Exit takes the stage at 10pm. Advance tickets available at www.secret-oktober.com
Joe of drunkrockers.com caught a few shots of Ryan and Anji of Lovespirals at the Club Violaine 5 Year Anniversary party with formers members of The Von Trapps Nick Marshall, Rodney Rodriguez, and Matt Gleason. Rodney and Matt both played with Melodyguild for a time, and Matt is featured on the Aitu release. You can see the full set of photos from the show in the DrunkRockers Violaine Archive.
Love Spirals Downwards’ vocalist, Suzanne Perry, has contributed to two songs on the new Falling You album, Faith. You might be able to guess from the titles alone which tracks she penned, but as the featured artists are not listed, hers are “The End Before the Winds” and “And the Rain Comes in Waves.”
Featuring incredible performances by Suzanne Perry (Love Spirals Downwards), Amanda Kramer (The Golden Palominos), Shikhee (Android Lust) and other Falling You favorites, ‘faith’ continues in the dark ambient / heavenly voices / ethereal style of ‘human’ and ‘touch’, while adding subtle industrial elements. Exploring what we humans do when life’s experiences shake the foundations of whatever beliefs we hold, ‘faith’ asks the question, ‘What do we do when everything crumbles around us?’
In case you didn’t hear the band’s 1 hour guest spot on Auralgasms Radio last night, don’t cry! While you did miss out on a fun chat session in the Auralgasms chatroom with Lovespirals, you can still hear a pristine archival copy of the show. Ryan and Anji chat between each song, giving not only track information, but a little insight into the music and musicians involved. Our set seemed to be a hit with the live listeners, so hopefully you’ll love it, too! BTW, this was the world premier of the SWS remix of “This Truth.”
“Sundrenched” LovespiralsLong Way From Home (2007)
“Motherless Child (Karmacoda Remix)” Lovespirals Motherless Child EP (2007)
“Walk Away (Bitstream Dream Remix)” Lovespirals Walk Away EP (2004)
“Tomorrow [Hidden Track following “Dreaming a Thousand Dreams]” ChandeenTeenage Poetry (2008)
“Lazy Love Days” Lovespirals Long Way From Home (2007)
Thanks to Mikey for setting up this fun show and to everyone who tuned in and came by to chat – especially Riki and CocteauBoy! Music provided by the Podsafe Music Network, Projekt Records, and the bands themselves.
After a long delay, you can finally purchase the newly expanded Ardor [Remastered Reissue] on iTunes. This 2007 version of Love Spirals Downwards’ classic 1994 sophomore album includes 3 bonus tracks; a live recording of the classic “Write in Water,” an unreleased outtake from the album sessions called “Oisin and Niam,” and an alternate mix of “I Could Find It Only By Chance,” also from the original album sessions. Once again, band founder, Ryan Lum, completely remastered the album from the original DATs to bring out more sonic clarity than ever before, and the artwork has been recreated from the original photograph to striking results!
Suzanne’s band, Melodyguild, are scheduled to have a CD release party at Club Violane in LA’s Chinatown district this Saturday. The band will be performing songs from their brand new release, Aitu, out now on Projekt Records.
Ethereal Shoegaze and Electronica from Projekt Records and Chillcuts
