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East Lansing MI, United States (1991 – present)

Formed in East Lansing, Michigan in 1991, the duo of Lovesliescrushing consists of Scott Cortez (guitars) and Melissa Arpin-Duimstra (vocals). They are an ambient/noise group that uses the shoegaze/dream pop sound as a starting point, but drop conventional song structures, and focus on highly textured and otherworldly soundscapes. Guitarist Scott Cortez’s use of his guitar in conjunction with loop devices, e-bow, paint scrapers, forks, knives, vibrators, violin bows, etc. to create lush, swirling tones dissociated with guitar has caused critics/reviewers to mistake them for using keyboards. Their sound is typified by a signature lack of drums, glossolalia, dense billowing chordal clusters, massive sheets of whitenoise, delicate looped backwound figures implying abstract rhythms and ambient freeform instrumentals.
They have released five full-lengths to date, all recorded with a simple 4-track recorder, including their latest release, Chorus, which was done completely in acapella.
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  • xTIMEx

    dizzy is the best

    last week

  • ride_her

    I want to get the album Bloweyelashwish and make it sit on my face. Forever. [2]

    last month

  • johngebreadman

    wish there was a cd release for the new ep :(

    December 2011

  • hervoiceisdead

    New EP is great [4]

    December 2011

  • SwaggMachine

    New EP is great [3]

    December 2011

  • Feyodor

    New EP is great [2]

    December 2011

  • Thanntos

    New EP is great

    December 2011

  • psynumb

    Bloweyelashwish is sonic bliss to my ears.

    November 2011

  • wavertone

    http://lovesliescrushing.bandcamp.com/ digital ep featuring the newest recordings from this summer.

    November 2011

  • SwaggMachine

    I can't stop listening to avianium. Such a fantastic album.

    November 2011

  • diamantinas_

    ojalá en vivo sea cinco mil veces más hermoso. y ojalá algún día lo pueda presenciar

    October 2011

  • anarchodandyist

    I want to get the album Bloweyelashwish and make it sit on my face. Forever.

    October 2011

  • TangerineStars

    what hasn't scott cortez used to prepare his guitars?

    October 2011

  • helloimjoshua

    whoa. just found out they just released stuff this year. that digital 7" is pretty great, although it's pretty different from what they usually do

    October 2011

  • module64

    Ripoff

    September 2011

  • Selenaru_Negrea

    Isnt the album on LINE Chorus Redux?

    August 2011

  • floydkelley

    It should be noted that lovesliescrushing has changed direction somewhat and just released an album named Chorus on Richard Chartier's ultra-minimalist label LINE. Guitarist Scott Cortez also released an album on aforementioned label.

    August 2011

  • V-A

    I want to cry listening to them

    July 2011

  • snowbleed

    You and everybody else.

    July 2011

  • RAWWRRRRRR

    i also thought their name was loveliescrushing for a little while

    July 2011
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