Buy It Now: Idylls

Idyllus

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By Zakariya Willis

The “alternative” to electronic/house music was forged with the help of the mid '90s California based band -- Love Spirals Downwards -- equivocally affiliated with the genres of shoegaze, dream-pop and ethereal darkwave. The band had gained a following with the goth crowd, which is somewhat ironic since they weren’t portraying themselves as faded or dismal individuals, but colorful. LSD's (ha!) music does offer something different, a cross between ambient Aphex Twin kinda shit and acoustic, guitar-loaded, traditional British folk music. The crudest description would include something like a bionic Tolkien…yes, if "Blade Runner" and "Lord of the Rings" were caramelized in a frying pan, you’d have Love Spirals Downwards. Old shack mates Suzanne Perry and Ryan Lum remind us again what that genre was like with the reissuing of their first LP Idylls, put out by the Brooklyn-based label Projekt, well-known, if not, only known, to bring this kind of mind-fuck music to the masses. The overall idea was Ryan Lum’s, working to make a quasi-comeback. He has re-mastered the original 13 tracks, cleaning up what was really already too clean. He adds three new pieces at the end, “Mediterranea,” which sounds like the “Love’s Labour’s Lost (Heavenly Voices Mix)”, which sounds like the live version to “Scatter January” which sounds like everything else on the album. In the end it says that all of the songs and arrangements are pieces to a melodramatic puzzle, put together in various forms, but each having only a slightly different outcome.

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