Between 1992 and 1998, musician, Ryan Lum and vocalist, Suzanne Perry, released 4 best-selling Projekt albums under the name Love Spirals Downwards, with a unique blend of ethereal, shoegazer, folk, world, ambient, and electronica styles.

Dissatisfied with current trends and styles in much of today’s pop music, our music is a unique blend of what we find to be aesthetically pleasing. To us, our music transcends any one pigeonhole categorization into one particular style or genre. Elements from East Indian music, psychedelic rock, and ethereal – among others – can be found in our music. In creating atmosphere, we meld “exotically” tuned and processed acoustic, as well as electric, guitars with female vocals and percussion. In breaking with more conventional vocals, we completely abandon the use of language as a conveyor of thought and emotion in hopes that the entire musical piece, instrumental and vocals, work as one artistic expression.
— Love Spirals Downwards, 1991

The duo’s 1992 debut release, ‘Idylls,’ melded the 80’s 4AD band sound with 60’s psychedelic folk and classical Indian music with Medieval inspired lyrics to create a style all their own.

‘Ardor,’ released in 1994, aligned LSD with the shoegazer sound, utilizing the signature swirling guitars, minimal basslines and slow paced tempos of the genre. Perry’s glossolalia style vocal harmonies, however, set them apart from many of their contemporaries.

LSD’s 1996 release, ‘Ever,’ further diversified their established sound, bringing ambient electronic grooves into the mix of 60’s inspired folk melodies and lush guitar textures and incorporated more loops and fewer vocals than before.

Their best-selling fourth album, ‘Flux,’ made a bold move in a new direction incorporating ethereal drum and bass production and placing more emphasis on rhythm and beat than vocal fronting. ‘Flux’ brought the band, which now included sister, Kristen Perry on vocals, closer to a pop sound than previous efforts.

In 2000, Projekt dropped a career retrospective featuring several ‘Flux’ remixes Lum had created as part of the album’s promotions. Over the ensuing decades, all four of the band’s albums and sole single have been released in expanded remastered reissues, plus a collection of live recordings.

Since that time Lum has continued to record new music under the shortened moniker, Lovespirals, with new musical partner, Anji Bee, once again taking up the mantle of the original band name in 2023.