Lower Dens - Nootropics - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Competition, the anticipated fourth album from Lower Dens, is a pop album with a concept both emotionally and politically urgent. The title is lead singer and songwriter Jana Hunter's term for a sociopsychological phenomenon that, in different ways, binds us all. Modern capitalism by nature generates a psychosis that accelerates our insecurities and anxieties to the point of total overload, corroding our intimacies, our communities, and our senses of self. The Competition speaks, in various ways, to the necessity of Inchsocially de-conditioning ourselves and learning how to be people,Inch Hunter says. InchThe issues that have shaped my life, for better or for worse, have to do with coming from a family and a culture that totally bought into this competitive mindset.Inch

Album Tracks 1. Blue & Silver 2. Tea Lights 3. A Dog's Dick 4. Holy Water 5. I Get Nervous 6. Completely Golden 7. Plastic & Powder 8. Rosie 9. Truss Me 10. Hospice Gates 11. Two Cocks

On Escape From Evil, Lower Dens’ Jana Hunter emerges cerebral and hot-blooded, rash and incorruptible, and, crucially, possessing of a loud, clear voice. Hunter stepping up and taking center stage has emboldened every other aspect of the band. Escape From Evil is a cinematic, tonally rich work. The sounds are clean and warm. The pulse of the album is strong. Escape from Evil marks the follow-up to 2012’s Nootropics.