Jana Hunter / Lower Dens

^^Yes it is, and her new EP is wonderful, contrary to what Pitchfork say. I easily makes up for her somewhat disappointing sophomore effort. There's no home is entirely ruined by having Palms at the beginning, after which everything is just completely overshadowed.

Oh poor Jana. I try I swear. For the record the new one is called Carrion. It really is worth your while. Really.

No kidding! Where's the love, ILM?

Don't bother.... Appreciating Jana will have to be a private thing. It would seem so at least.

Haven't heard the album or single but listening to live Lower Dens (new JH band) and they are GREAT! I hope the recorded stuff is just as loud and throbbing... When did she get so loud?

I really like There's No Home - curious to hear Lower Dens

curious to hear Lower Dens

there's some great demos scattered on their tumblr but the live stuff is just amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNoaB17QZtM

This Lower Dens record is really good.
http://dustedmagazine.com/reviews/5842
I think I've heard a little of Jana Hunter's solo stuff before, her voice is really familiar.
But this group thing is hitting me in all the right places.

yeah this is great-
i haven't watched any of the live stuff yet but i'm kinda struck by how people are talking about how loud it all is - it doesn't seem such a step up from her last couple of releases?, really, though a sort of fuller, slacker group sound.

agreed -- i'd first been listening to a live show currently on d!me@d0zen, which sounds pretty loud to these ears. but the album does seem more subdued than that show.

Still amazing. Lower Dens were great at the sxsw show I saw, despite having recently lost their drummer. Almost a year on the album is still played a ton at our house, as well as the live show I mentioned upthread. Great Mayo Thompson cover on their last single too (redone from earlier demo tape). Does anyone else listen to these guys?

I have been listening to it a lot again after taking a break. Do they cover a song from Corky's Debt? Would love to see a show.

Yeah, Dear Betty Baby from Corky's.

Oh man, I love that song.

http://soundcloud.com/ribbonmusic/lower-dens-brains/s-lDAyZ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI2o-BuQ8eE

bump

kinda chooglin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyxzjF8IjE8

http://winnipeg.ca/waterandwaste/images/water/pipeLeak.jpg

this new one is aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaghghals;kg so good

also, i'm an idiot and didn't even realize jana hunter was the singer until 2 minutes ago

brain > stem > propagation, nonstop good. love the slow burning closer, too

brains is tight, nice deerhunter vibe

This record is streaming at NPR. Sounds real good.

Thanks, this is helping tuesday morning.

it's alright so far...

I may have posted too soon. The song Brains is excellent but side 2 does not appear to be my cup of musical tea, at least on first listen.

its good, i think i like 'twin-hand movement' more tho

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.