While the above artwork accompanying the below stream of Lower Dens' forthcoming single Brains may suggest a seismic shift in the Baltimore outfit's general interests and genuine intentions (a veer towards stadium-shaped arenas of the hopelessly soulless perhaps), any such trepidation is soon allayed as Jana Hunter's inimitably comforting baritone soothes through the core of five rock-solid minutes. Perhaps more abstract than the material encased within beauteous debut full-length Twin-Hand Movement (transhumanism now apparently accounts for a paramount influence), they remain as dynamic, diligent, and serenely efficient as ever, Nate Nelson's clicking hi-hats propelling vague washes of slackened guitar string as a typically protuberant bass line courtesy of Geoff Graham regiments proceedings. The antithesis of what Sleigh Bells threw up as a first single from a sophomore record yesterday, Brains is a quietly compulsive reintroduction to a discreetly remarkable band. Lower Dens - Brains by Ribbon Music
The resurrection of Lower Dens – or least follow-up record Nootropics (to be released via Domino imprint Ribbon Music) – is pencilled in for April 30th.
