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Lower Dens - Nootropics Record Label - Ribbon Music Release Date - May 1st, 2012 Some years ago, when Silver Jews frontman Dave Berman called Radiohead " gray ," it's hard to think that he didn't have another band and another album in mind.   Nootropics , the second release from Jana Hunter fronted Lower Dens, slow-churns its way through your speakers like a psychedelic sci-fi iceberg.  It is, unabashedly, gray. The title originates from smart drugs (natural or otherwise) which improve brain function.  While this album doesn't appear (from quite a few listens) to be the indie equivalent of Baby Mozart, what makes ...

Nootropics - intelligence-enhancing chemicals - lend their name to Lower Dens’ recently-released second album, and it’s precisely within this mental sphere, rather than any emotional or physical one, that tonight’s performance does its best work. But first, Lower Dens band member Carter Tanton takes to the stage, equipped with a twelve-string acoustic guitar, some effects and a loop pedal. With these, and a later switch to an electric guitar, he constructs some fascinating sonic landscapes, accompanied by his voice, sometimes also electronically modified. As his set goes on these creations become increasingly experimental, and he crosses a fair amount of ...

Nauseating splatters of discoball speckle the floors of Madame Jojo's as fairy lights add yet more glisten beyond an arsenal of elaborate equipment. 'Tis a setting as picturesque as any opaque, barely starry and scarcely black night draped over the capital although this evening's White Heat rundown is a little less idyllic. It's an odd combination of flavours and one you assume few would have the necessarily acquired taste for. For having Jana Hunter's eruditely wistful Baltimore clan Lower Dens slopped on the same plate as Porcelain Raft and Trust  is a little like the sonic ...

Lower Dens “Brains” No, this isn’t a song about the ever-impending zombie apocalypse. And no, this isn’t a side project from Beach House’s  Victoria Legrand (though there is most certainly an undeniable similarity between the two bands). No, this is Jana Hunter, the Texas based singer/songwriter, at her best. Hunter is known to have various side projects scattered throughout the land, but the Lower Dens is definitely my favorite. Their combination of dark, minimalism and Hunter’s ethereal voice make me want to join a cult (or something sort of outrageous like that). Unfortunately for me ...

On the new album's intellectual subject matter, live shows and touring plans.

Wow, does anyone even talk/write about New Weird America anymore? Peeps were way down on that shit when it was poppin’ off. “ 2010 is the decade of micro-genres .” Maybe it was just another launch for pleasant-sounding music (i.e., hypnagogic, chillwave). Taking flight would mean you have to bear arms a bit. Like Collective">Animal Collective out of Here Comes the Indian , Jana Hunter from Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom to Lower Dens, or Joanna Newsome and a triple disc. Musicians have to get stickier if they want to be remembered or produce in the New Weird American scene ...

As you might guess of a gal who titled her 2005 solo album Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom Lower Dens frontwoman Jana Hunter has some goth in her "Mutate deface The whole shithouse goes up in flames" she sings over gorgeous synth drones on "Nova Anthem" an interstellar dirge that...

Lower Dens Nootropics Ribbon Music [2012]   Fire Note Says: Lower Dens sophomore record Nootropics is a true modern day take on what Kraftwerk started 40 years ago! Album Review: "Space - The final frontier" seems like a good way to start out when talking about Lower Dens sophomore outing Nootropics . It is an album that uses space, sound and complex song structures to mesmerize, contemplate and perplex its listeners while completely winning them over.   Lead by longtime experimental artist Jana Hunter this Baltimore band hits you right out of the block with a very atmospheric floating track in "Alphabet Song" that ...

photos by Joe McCabe Before coming out for an almost-unheard-of-at-Glasslands three-song encore, frontwoman Jana Hunter of Lower Dens stepped out from behind the keys and mic stand to stand in front of the monitors, among the crowd, and close the...

Baltimore’s Lower Dens can set up and take down their equipment very efficiently, and probably anywhere. After years of touring, Jana Hunter and bassist Geoff Graham have also realized a pretty high level of vocal … read more »

By Ace Ubas I’ll admit that I’ve never heard of Lower Dens prior to the hype leading up to the release of their latest album, Nootropics (pronounced “No-eh-tropics”). Shame on me, I know. But after listening to this album, I am completely sold on the Baltimore-based quintet led by vocalist Jana Hunter . In the past she’s been a touring member for renowned artists such as Devendra Banhart, Marissa Nadler, Deer Tick, and Peter & the Wolf, so she’s definitely …

[Photos by acidjack] Before coming out for an almost-unheard-of-at-Glasslands three-song encore, frontwoman Jana Hunter of Lower Dens stepped out from behind the keys and mic stand to stand in front of the monitors, among the crowd, and close the main set with the Houston musician Arthur Bates’ “Hours”. And why the hell not? Though known [...]

Before today, I was pretty certain Lower Dens was fronted by an awkward looking dude with strange fashion sense. From this video and clips of their SXSW performances earlier in the year, I had no clear idea that Jana Hunter … Continue reading →

Baltimore’s Lower Dens have a new video for “Propagation”, a track off their sophomore full-length “Nootropics” (No-eh-tro-pics) out on Ribbon Music today. It’s such a drowsily gorgeous, narcotized track, with lead singer Jana Hunter sounding like Chrissie Hynde — her vocals drawn-out and lithe as drifting smoke. Video is directed by Sebastian Mlynarski. You can [...]