Ryan and Anji’s September single —which dropped early as a Bandcamp Friday exclusive— now comes to streaming platforms.
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Shifting away from the breezy downtempo of September’s “So High,” “Strange Air” takes a darker turn just in time for Scorpio Season. Ryan and Anji Lum’s latest single is steeped in a mysterious atmosphere, melding dream pop with the smoky undertones of trip-hop and neo-soul. Anji Lum’s intimate vocals capture the magnetic, almost dangerous chemistry of a Mars-Venus connection that strikes from out of the blue. Weaving the sensual textures of Anji’s voice into Ryan’s beautifully emotive acoustic and electric guitar work, with a sprinkling of antique piano and light, jazzy drums, “Strange Air” conjures a numinous enchantment. Was that chance encounter a brush with destiny, or was it just a momentary desire?
Ryan and Anji Lum’s brand new single for September is available now on all streaming platforms, digital music stores, and via YouTube Music.
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“So High” takes a break from narrative-based work and offers a refreshing late-summer dive back into the downtempo chillout of their surprise 2024 hit “Not Myself.” With laid-back beats and a melancholic vibe suggestive of the neo-soul sound of Sade and the moody, urban sophisti-pop of Everything But The Girl, the duo’s latest single is less dream pop than turn-of-the-millennium electro-acoustic nostalgia.
Featuring a mix of soulful sun-kissed lyrical snippets and light, jazzy vocalizations reminiscent of Lonnie Liston Smith’s “Summer Night,” Anji Lum’s dreamy vocals project a sophisticated ease, creating an emotional push-pull between sensuality and sadness. Driven by Ryan Lum’s signature blend of acoustic and atmospheric electric guitar, the track’s groove is defined by soulful wah-wah textures, vintage synths, and sultry saxophone—evoking the breezy warmth of Kool & The Gang’s “Summer Madness.”
“So High” is the perfect soundtrack for sipping chilled wine and watching the sky turn from golden afternoon to purple dusk.
Siren Podcast said of “So High” in their Instagram review (translated from the original Italian):
The music leaves behind the more introspective dimension of previous singles. Dream pop doesn’t disappear entirely, but it dissolves into the background as the duo moves toward a soft downtempo, infused with soul, jazz, and electronica.
Anji’s voice accompanies this shift without forcing it. These are colors that she and Ryan draw from a soul and pop aesthetic of a few decades ago and transform into something intimately their own, maintaining that electronic delicacy that has always accompanied the project.
The music reflects a passionate mood and a chilled out sensibility, perfect for relaxation and dreaming, tinged with a hint of melancholy emotion to balance the sailing, graceful sensation within the music.
Watch the official lyrics visualizer below—created by Anji using photography by Ryan. Be sure to subscribe and hit the notification bell to stay connected as we continue to release our monthly singles.
Ryan and Anji Lum’s brand new single for August is available now on all streaming platforms, digital music stores, and via YouTube Music.
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Emerging from the heavy, interior themes of “Haunted,” “Broken,” and “Dissociate,” “Desirable” shifts its gaze outward. Sultry, jazz-tinged trip-hop downbeat carries a weary detachment—a last call barfly watching the room with a tired eye, attuned to the quiet gravity of desire as it pulls everyone closer.
“Desirable” unfolds as an enigmatic study in magnetism and distance, where vintage warmth meets modern depth. The arrangement moves with a slow, deliberate confidence, letting space and texture do the work of tension and release.
Anji’s breathy, seductive vocals, recorded in a single take, offer a storyteller’s intimacy—cool, measured, and just out of reach—underscored by a restrained high-harmony flourish. Paired with Ryan Lum’s evocative guitar and the duo’s hypnotic production, the track settles into a velvet-lined atmosphere that feels both intimate and faintly untouchable.
With “Desirable,” Love Spirals Downwards move into a more outward-facing dimension without losing the qualities that belong to their music: the warmth of a night and that almost hypnotic pull that is difficult to resist.
This time, though, the sensuality of a gaze and the desire running through the song are added to it all.
And so, chapter after chapter, Anji and Ryan continue to build their story, once again leaving us suspended between what we see and what their music enables us to imagine.
Watch the official music video below—filmed and edited by Anj. Be sure to subscribe and hit the notification bell to stay connected as we continue to release our monthly singles.
Ryan and Anji Lum’s brand new single for July is available now on all streaming platforms, digital music stores, and via YouTube Music.
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“Haunted” drifts through half-lit rooms during those quiet, heavy hours when your space feels crowded by what is no longer there, and voices from the past continue to echo.
This genre-blending track draws from the duo’s dream-pop roots while remaining future-focused, marrying contemporary electronic textures and beats with a shimmering atmospheric haze. Stately piano and Ryan Lum’s evocative ethereal guitar create a lush backdrop for Anji Lum’s intimate yet restrained vocals layered with ghostlike high harmonies.
Following the journey back to the self in “Broken,” “Haunted” settles into the aftermath: a reckoning with absence as the specter of the past inhabits every room, refusing to fade.
Sound and Vision said our 2026 singles series followed an “ethereal and silky path of dreampop” that is “connecting with [our] roots and sounding so fresh and smooth,” observing that our latest single “floats into a territory where contemporary electronics and dreamlike atmospheres coexist naturally.”
Kari Magi of Absynth Space noted that “Ryan Lum’s guitar playing evokes all of the loneliness of midnight thought,” while “Anji Lum’s voice falls like velvet across the music,” and “breathe[s] with all of the bereft emotion within the lyrics.”
TheSirene Podcastcalled it “another exquisite piece of dream pop infused with subtle electronic textures,” and “a world of rare beauty,” concluding that “Haunted” is “Another testament to the duo’s distinctive artistic sensitivity.”
Watch the official lyrics visualizer below—created by Anji using photography by Ryan. Be sure to subscribe and hit the notification bell to stay connected as we continue to release our monthly singles.
Ryan and Anji’s brand new single for June is available now on streaming platforms and digital music stores, as well as via YouTube Music.
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If “Dissociate” was a retreat into the void, “Broken” is the journey back. Blending organic trip-hop rhythms with dream-pop textures, the song pairs Ryan Lum’s shimmering guitars with Anji Lum’s soulful-yet-ethereal vocal harmonies. Moving from shadow into light, “Broken” is a meditation on emotional self-protection and the habits we form to shield ourselves. It’s a soundtrack for those hazy hours when intrusive thoughts slow their spiral, and you realize you might be okay after all.
Love Spirals Downwards described the previous single, “Dissociate,” as a song to be heard at two in the morning. From that image, a concept was born—in our own words—of a secret room far from the noise of the world.
“Broken,” the newly released track, seems to bring us right back there a few hours later, when the night is not yet over and a thin mist continues to shroud thoughts and memories.
Ryan Lum’s luminous guitars intertwine with soft, pulsing trip-hop rhythms, while Anji Lum’s captivating voice traverses fragility with an almost disarming delicacy.
Like the mist that softens the contours of the landscape without erasing it, “Broken” does not completely dissolve the unrest. It simply offers a place to rest.
Stream “Dissociate” from the Bandcamp player below, where you can also purchase a download, or add it to your streaming playlists on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, TIDAL or YouTube Music.
The duo’s YouTube video provides a visual journey through the hazy corridors of the mind. The imagery, captured in a singular photoshoot, serves as a quiet anchor for the lyrics—a dream-like progression of light and shadow on rippling water that mirrors the song’s internal architecture. Watch it on the YouTube player below.
Love Spirals Downwards’ track “Sunset Bell (Flux Mix)” –featuring vocalist Jennifer Wilde– was just featured by Resident Advisor as part of an RA Greenhouse Session curated by Ciel, closing out the Toronto artist’s set on an epic note. Known for her “tripped-out grooves” and “spacy, slippery melodies,” Ciel delivered a performance described by RA as “jazzy, atmospheric downtempo with plenty of low-end.”
Established in 2001, Resident Advisor is the world’s premier online music magazine and community platform dedicated to electronic music. Through its global reach and influential editorial voice, RA has become a primary tastemaker for the underground, showcasing the intersection of culture, art, and dance music. The Greenhouse Sessions is a specialized video series filmed canal-side at the magazine’s London headquarters, designed to allow top-tier DJs and live acts to experiment outside their usual club sounds, often exploring the deeper, more contemplative corners of their record collections.
Cindy Li aka Ciel is a highly influential figure in the contemporary electronic scene, co-founding the It’s Not U It’s Me collective and earning a reputation for versatile sets that span from breaks to tech-house. This session highlights her more organic, atmospheric side, placing “Sunset Bell” alongside works by experimental legends like Coil, The Durutti Column, and The Sabres of Paradise –remixed by Portishead.
The duo’s new single “No Reply” finds Ryan and Anji Lum returning to the soulful, late-night side of their sound, blending chillout textures with dream pop atmosphere, warm female vocals, and a laid-back groove. Built around haunting piano, acoustic and electric guitar, shimmering electric layers, and subtle string machine textures, the song explores the quiet anxiety of modern communication breakdown. More upbeat than recent singles “Secrets” or “Gray,” it’s closer in spirit to 2024’s “Not Myself,” with a retro downtempo feel.
Filmed along the remote, rocky coastline of Catalina Island, the music video features Anji’s lyrics unfolding over point-of-view hiking footage and wide cinematic shots of natural beauty, mirroring the song’s theme of isolation and missed communications, and echoing the refrain: “No answer, no reply.”
The duo’s second single of 2026, “Secrets,” finds Ryan and Anji Lum turning inward, embracing a hushed late‑night chillout atmosphere shaped as much by restraint as by confession. Written and produced by the husband‑and‑wife duo, the track leans away from guitar‑led dynamics in favor of moody synthesizers, understated keyboard lines, and contemporary electronic beats, subtly shifting the emotional contour of the songwriting. Anji’s lyrics confront the quiet damage caused by withholding truth, moving from regret toward self‑recognition, while the recurring question — “Are you keeping secrets again?” — circles like an echo of doubt that refuses to fade.
“Secrets” is available now on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music,YouTube Music and other streaming platforms under the original band name, Love Spirals Downwards, as well as on Bandcamp under both iterations. Listen on the player below.
The dreamy visualizer video continues sharing secrets with the world, using the album‑cover image and additional shots taken by bandleader Ryan Lum in that same session. Vocalist and co‑writer Anji Lum edited the clip, weaving in more footage she shot herself and integrating her lyrics. Check it out now on YouTube.
The duo opens 2026 with “Gray,” a hushed late‑night single that finds Ryan and Anji Lum leaning deeper into restraint, atmosphere, and emotional stillness. Grounded in the project’s familiar minor‑key gravity, the song blends evocative samples and muted, trap‑influenced rhythms with Ryan Lum’s signature layering of electric and acoustic guitars, soft electronics, and emotive string machine textures—modern in its pulse, yet unmistakably Love Spirals in tone.
The arrangement centers on mood and space, with the chorus built around a delayed, disembodied sample of the word “gray” and a quiet, high‑register response that drifts like a half‑remembered thought. Only in the bridge do harmonies bloom, briefly lifting the song with nostalgic warmth before receding again, while Ryan’s guitar work culminates in a classic Lovespirals solo—restrained, melodic, and quietly expressive.
Created by Anji using archival personal footage, the accompanying music video mirrors the song’s emotional terrain through largely monochromatic imagery, punctuated by fleeting bursts of color during moments of remembered warmth. Together, the single and video form a unified, introspective statement.
The duo’s final single of 2025 finds them drifting into liminal territory with “Drift Begins.” Built around soft piano and ethereal pads, the track reaches back into Ryan Lum’s early ’90s sonic palette, with gentle acoustic guitar, chiming electric lines, and even the same vintage drum machine he used on his first few albums. The effect is a warm, windswept echo of his Projekt-era roots, reimagined with the benefit of modern equipment and production techniques.
The song’s stately 6/8 meter, softened edges, and misty lyrical imagery subtly echo the contemplative spirit of Pink Floyd’s 1972 song “Burning Bridges,” reflecting the duo’s longstanding affection for mid-period Floyd. While Ryan’s emotive, smoothly distorted, suspended solo inevitably recalls David Gilmour, Anji’s vocals also nod to that era, hovering between intimacy and reverie in luminous two-part harmony. Elsewhere, Anji’s high and low registers intertwine in a way that recalls the aching duality Rachel Goswell and Neil Halstead carried across both Slowdive and Mojave 3.
