Jana Hunter / Lower Dens

This reminds me so much of Rapture-era Siouxise and the Banshees

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n78GkK7LC9Y

v good song

v good new interview

http://pitchfork.com/features/update/9587-lower-dens/

http://www.vogue.com/9177915/lower-dens-jana-hunter-interview/

https://soundcloud.com/lowerdens/ondine
new song sounds p cool look forward to this album also they will probably tour europe this year i guess?

the record leaked and it's so good

Cool! I only became aware of them through "To Die in LA", maybe I have a lot of catching up to do or maybe their (apparently?) new more poppy direction is just right up my alley. I'll preorder this one.

God, this album is so fucking brilliant you guys.

Hmm, that Pitchfork review made it sound like it emphasized the parts of Nootropics I liked least and toned down the krautrock parts I liked best.

Same. I find the new one horribly bland.

o_O

okay, nerds.

I didn't like the new album anywhere near as much as Nootropics on first listen. It took time to grow on me. I still prefer Nootropics, but Escape from Evil is closing the gap.

Nootropics and Escape From Evil are pretty similar in the grand scheme, so differentiating between the two is really just getting into the weeds. I really like both of them, but there's something a little brighter, more sparkly about Escape From Evil.

EvE scans as much more direct and "pop" and...yeah, more positibe. NT could drift into some fairly abstract places that were less "song-y." But it hardly matters, both great albums.

just listened to this and will again. it is pretty damn good.

http://lowerdens.tumblr.com/post/126535297727/ive-listened-so-much-to-societe-anonyme-that-now

the society we live in is so fundamentally upside-down that without drugs or entertainment to mute one’s sensitivity, all of its wrongness floods in a priori like an atmosphere of needle-points. things that we find gorgeous can make us feel just as acutely the presence of their opposites.

in the song, “sublimation” is meant to represent both the idea of making the mundane sublime, and, in its true clinical sense, “the transformation of unwanted impulses into something less harmful.” sublimation, if you want it. an escape from loneliness and misery into acceptable forms of intoxication (entertainment, wealth, opiates, etc.) the trick is that loneliness and misery are also the products of our society. we’re given the emptiness of entertainment and the pursuit of money, and so we are left lonely and miserable, and so we are given entertainment and opportunities to make money, and these are empty, so we remain lonely and miserable. tears are appropriate, no doubt.

cool having jana hunter in the world writing & talking i think

Some great songs on this record, production a bit muddy for my taste but very cohesive sound. It's a record abt love?

Saw them live yesterday, was good but I had higher hopes. Jana a very good singer, but seemed a bit shy.

This is superb.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkYiMgiN3xM

Young Republicans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0xIaRaFvV8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swMCMcud2L4

really enjoying these new songs

someone who isn't me should write a bunch of words about it

Completely missed that there was a new album until today. Playing catch-up right now, but I Drive is muy bueno.

I need to revisit this. I was disappointed on initial listens but might've given up too soon. I came around on Escape from Evil after being put off by the more pop direction at first. Anyone seen them live lately?

It's a little bit cold, the songs never really open up in any deeper way, but I still stand by I Drive being a jam.

The Competition is so rad, their best one yet, sad it took me so long to hear it.