Biography

Love Spirals Downwards was begun in the late 80’s by multi-instrumentalist and producer, Ryan Lum, but took flight with the addition of then-girlfriend, Suzanne Perry, as vocalist in 1991. Two of their demo tracks (“Mediterranea” and “Forgo”) were featured on the From Across this Grey Land 3 compilation, garnering international attention from fans and critics alike, and sparking their career as one of Projekt Records’ most successful artists to date. Over their 8 year history, Love Spirals Downwards released four 10,000+ selling albums; Idylls (1992), Ardor (1994), Ever (1996), and Flux (1998), plus 1 single, Sideways Forest (1996), and 1 retrospective collection Temporal: A Collection of Music Past & Present (2000), incorporating the styles of Ethereal, Shoegazer, Folk, World, Ambient, and Electronica to create a Dream Pop sound uniquely their own. Primarily a studio recording project, the duo performed live only rarely and almost always acoustically. 14 years after the duo had parted ways, they dropped a digital-only release of a Live album that Lum had begun work on in 2000. The band’s first 3 albums and sole single have been released in expanded remastered reissues featuring previously unreleased tracks. Plans are being made for an expanded remastered release of their final album, Flux, sometime in the future. Lum continues to record new music under the shortened moniker, Lovespirals.