Lower Dens

Lower Dens are an indie folk band from Baltimore, MD.[Formed by Jana Hunter, the band has released two albums: their debut on Gnomonsong records and a follow up album on Ribbon Music.

The record as a whole begs for an assessment of all the flaws inherent in our existence, and to imagine a better, more suitable, logical way for humanity to live. So says Lower Dens leader Jana Hunter about the bands stunning new album Nootropics. Its an ambitious work, and it delivers heavily metaphorical, the symmetries and concordances of the lyrics run deep; the luminous lines of the music converge at a point in a future just out of view. Lower Dens has made music that reconciles fear and uncertainty by freeze-framing it and turning it into a thing of beauty.

Pronounced no-eh-tro-pics, the title refers to a type of drug used to enhance memory or other cognitive functions. Thats a reference to Hunters interest in transhumanism, the use of technology to extend human capabilities. It could just as easily extend to the music itself even the bands newfound keyboards achieve a human-digital synthesis that aptly mirrors the albums themes.