When Jana Hunter formed Lower Dens for 2010's impressive Twin-Hand Movement, the story was, um, 'Jana Hunter starts band.' Now, with second record Nootropics, the story is 'band gets tight.'
Building from the rollicking momentum of the awesome single "Batman," Lower Dens have been barreling further into hypnotic repetition and instrumental chemistry. The five lock-groove minutes of lead single "Brains" come with krautrock comparisons inbuilt: the Baltimore-based band rolling out down some unending audio autobahn, highway lines flickering beneath the maw of their chugging rock'n'roll engine.
Both lyrically and compositionally, the jam picks up on the preoccupations of Nootropics, which are concerned with the interfacing between the human body and increasingly-intuitive technologies; the brain of its title the organ forever in-between our fleshy origins and the increasingly-digitized culture surrounding said corporeal form.
Lower Dens, "Brains"
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