Synth Single Review: “Gray” by Lovespirals

by Karl Magi

Lovespirals’ “Gray” captures emptiness and hurt as it evolves. The song opens with Ryan Lum’s guitar strumming and a slowly ticking percussive beat. The guitar’s warmth washes through the music as Anji Lum’s voice arrives hushed and bittersweet, carrying lyrics imbued with ache and loss.

Strumming notes flicker while the vocals float with restrained pain, and exhaling tones in the distance drift like shreds of mist. The drums create a fragile rhythm that threads its way through the song while Anji Lum’s voice pushes deep into me, capturing hurt and shadowed depression.

An acoustic guitar adds texture as Ryan Lum’s electric guitar howls with broken emotion, the vocals filigreed with sadness. Drifting notes vibrate with vulnerability as the bass swirls and the guitar adds a final delicate flicker before the song comes to an end.

As “everything grows colorless and gray,” even on the brightest days, the storyteller says that “nothing anyone could do or say will make it go away.” She feels as if everyone else has moved on while she stays in place, “unwilling to jump into the fray.”

She can’t find anything to keep “this creep at bay” or dispel it. “Once there was a time, I swear I knew golden light and skies of endless blue,” when laughter illuminated her path like a spark, but now it’s only gray.