Idylls

by Love Spirals Downwards

Idylls cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 January 1992
  • Label: Projekt
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:04:16
  • Community rating: 3.68/5 from 5 ratings

Artists on this release: Suzanne Perry, Ryan Lum, Jeff Stone

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Standing as a defining release on the Projekt label, the Californian duo's debut album weaves intricate acoustic guitar work and synthesized orchestrations into a deeply romantic, gothic tapestry. Suzanne Perry's soaring, often wordless vocals glide over the lush arrangements, cementing the record as a masterpiece of American ethereal wave.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, melodic, shimmering, minimal, ambient, female-vocals, dreamy, guitars

Tracklist

  1. Illusory Me (4:42)
  2. Scatter January (4:11)
  3. Love's Labour's Lost (2:30)
  4. This Endris Night (3:13)
  5. Forgo (3:08)
  6. Eudaimonia (3:02)
  7. Dead Language (4:34)
  8. Stir About the Stars (3:05)
  9. Noumena of Spirit (4:09)
  10. Ladonna Dissima (4:32)
  11. Drops, Rain, and Sea (3:53)
  12. Waiting for the Sunrise (3:38)
  13. And the Wood Comes Into Leaf (4:54)
  14. Mediterranea (5:20)
  15. Scatter January (Live) (4:58)
  16. Love's Labour's Lost (Heavenly Voices Mix) (4:19)

Credits

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