Love Spirals Downwards
Ever

THE REVIEW

7:47 PM, I am your musical-psychotherapist. I enter the house, you are alone, I sit down and without thinking too much, I hand you a CD I brought from home. It's from a duo, philosophy graduate Ryan Lum and psychologist Suzanne Perry, a couple who call themselves "Love Spirals Downwards," but don't pay attention to that. You take the CD out of its case and insert it into the player. Now lie down on the couch and relax, completely. "El Pedregal" plays. Free your mind. Focus only on these notes. Well, you'll now notice that the sky is getting increasingly grey and it's starting to rain... well, you've left the clothes outside. You'll notice the phone is ringing. You'll notice that a strange and unusual burned smell is coming from the oven where you were baking the roast for dinner. You'll notice that you've just left me the house free, that I've entered your bedroom, that I've carefully taken all your valuables, and that I'm silently leaving your residence, allowing you to peacefully listen to the CD after writing on it "return it to me on Tuesday at 11". Will you notice? No, of course not.

If the sirens that enchanted Ulysses with their song had really existed, they would most probably have had the same voice as Suzanne Perry. Celestial, ethereal, extremely sweet. A voice truly capable of penetrating the soul, digging deep, and remaining there forever, of making one completely lose contact with reality, of granting a face-to-face with one's own inner self. A mystical music that of the "love descending spirals," melancholic and dark tinged if you will, but always ethereal and of clear philosophical inspiration. Percussions, reverberated acoustic guitars, excesses of phaser and e-bow. Almost a mystical experience, indeed, injected into songs which, under the guise of easy listening, hide pure spiritual complexity.
"Ever" is like a great classic ballad: the models of Dead Can Dance and Cocteau Twins have softened, allowing the group to rediscover a unique personality that is splendidly exemplified in songs like "Sideways Forest", "Last Classic", or "Delta", resolving into a fabric where electronic, guitar, percussion, and an angelic soprano alternate the song form (but always ethereal and thoughtful) with truly original ambient experimentation ("Madras"). Divine lightness that transports into a state of psychedelic trance. A must-have.