Love Spirals Downwards

"Some of them are in English and they make some sense, and some are in English and they make no sense. And there are others that are in a "make-believe" Italian, and then theres a kind of "make-believe" Latin, but I dont know Latin or Italian. And theres some French too... and some Indian, too, make-believe Indian. Most of it doesnt make any sense. Some of the new stuff actually does have a little meaning. Still, even if it does, I dont pronounce it well enough so that you can tell. When Im singing it, Im not concerned with pronouncing it so that you could understand it. I guess its not meant to be understood."

"I compartmentalize my music. Its something I do as a hobby and a side thing, and I dont really mix it with my life. Even my everyday emotions I dont think I mix with it. But every so often, I think it seeps in. Its interesting, because it truthfully makes me uncomfortable. In some ways, I think its kind of sappy and too expressionist to put your life in your music like that."

"People try to decipher a meaning in our name, but honestly, there isn’t one. It’s pure aestheticism. Beauty matters to us for its own sake. We’re aware that Love Spirals Downwards sounds like “LSD” to some people, but our music isn’t meant to “alter consciousness” or be psychedelic. It’s just music with an emphasis on beauty and feeling."

"As far as vocals go, Ill usually listen to a completed - or near completed - instrumental and just start humming some catchy notes into the microphone, find some that I like, then do a rough recording of them and see how they sound. If I wait a day or two and see if the notes stick to me, Ill sometimes try to write some words or phoentics to them. We get a mood for a song and if I think it has an Italian or Latin mood to it, Ill try to almost mimic that language to evoke that sort of mood. The songs in that way, at least on Idylls are more thematic. I tried to do something different with Ardor where I thought Id maybe write some words to it. There are definitely more actual words on Ardor."

"What it was, was that we were coming to the end of the summer and we had set ourselves a deadline. We did 3 songs and sent them out to 3 places and figured if no one called us on it, wed just keep making music."

"We started singing together in January of 1991."