Lovesliescrushing


Lovesliescrushing is an American ambient and shoegaze band from East Lansing, Michigan, United States, formed in 1991. The two primary members of the band are Scott Cortez and Melissa Arpin-Duimstra.
Guest musicians have joined the group for live performances, including Michael Anderson, Ana Breton, Alyssa Browne and Andrew Prinz.
Cortez is acclaimed for his technical creativity and use of studio effects. In a 2010 interview, he said, "I use several loopers, EQ and reverb mostly to manipulate time and sound. I also have had a few custom instruments to explore new textures. But the most important gear are my ears and brain, without them, you have no imagination running the tools."
Cortez has cited influences such as My Bloody Valentine, John Cage, Cocteau Twins, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew, György Ligeti, Harold Budd, Jon Hassell, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Arvo Pärt, Henryk Górecki, Glenn Branca and film soundtracks.

History

Formation and early career

Cortez and Arpin-Duimstra formed Lovesliescrushing in 1991 in East Lansing and later moved to Tucson, Arizona. In 1992, the duo issued the Bloweyelashwish cassette EP on their own Lullaby label, serving as a precursor/sampler for their debut album, similarly titled Bloweyelashwish
Lovesliescrushing signed a record deal with Projekt Records, who issued their debut album on CD and cassette in 1994, along with the "Youreyesimmaculate" single. Ned Raggett of AllMusic later described the album as "an amazing sonic bomb".
The more experimental follow-up, Xuvetyn, was released in 1996. AllMusic called it "even more of a mindblowing blast than Bloweyelashwish, 20 minutes longer and extending the spirit of that album's collision between brute feedback and serene sculpture in astounding directions".

Other projects

Between 1996 and 2002, Cortez left Projekt to front Astrobrite on the Sonic Syrup label.
In 1997, Cortez and Anderson formed two short lived projects, Vir and Transient Stellar. The latter performed as Lovesliescrushing at Projektfest 1997, utilizing an early melding of jungle and shoegaze.

Return

Lovesliescrushing returned in 2002 with the Glissceule album, released by Sonic Syrup. AllMusic called it "a mesmerizing collection of beautiful noise, 17 tracks of pearly lightness, angelically naïve with drumless textures". It was followed later that year by Voirshn, a Projekt release consisting of tracks that were left off of "Glissceule". These albums relied less on guitar, and Cortez dubbed the band's new sound "glitch bliss".
The Chorus album appeared in 2007 on the Peru-based Automatic Entertainment label; a reworked version, CRWTH , was issued by the Line label in 2010.
In 2010, Projekt issued the Girl. Echo. Suns. Veils. box set, which included a bonus second disc titled Avianium ; the latter was also issued separately as Aviatrix.
Lovesliescrushing released two albums in 2012, Shiny Tiny Stars and Glinter. They self-released the Ghost Colored Halo digital EP in 2013, reissued two years later on CD by Projekt.

Discography

Studio albums