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Lower Dens

Swarming guitar fuzz, bass waves, insistent drum throbs and Jana Hunter’s redolent, charred voice are the core components of Baltimore’s Lower Dens. Hunter, sometimes known for intimate, ghostheavy weird-fi, now writes and plays with a group that might get filed under new wave, drone pop, or post-punk. The band’s debut full-length record, Twin-Hand Movement, is eleven perfect songs long. From opener “Blue & Silver” (anxiety mounts at a quick clip until the final climactic release) to “Plastic & Powder” (a churning, narcotic slow-burner) to “Hospice Gates” (penultimate album cut, proud weirdo anthem, possible creative zenith), not one is a space-waster. They are rife with the survivalist paranoia one expects from residents of a post-urban port hole (and this particular songwriter), crafted methodically and beautifully, and carry the listener enthusiastically out into the rolling breaks of industrial filth-water.

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Swarming guitar fuzz, bass waves, insistent drum throbs, and Jana Hunter’s redolent, charred voice are the core components of the Baltimore indie rock band.

Lower Dens

Swarming guitar fuzz, bass waves, insistent drum throbs, and Jana Hunter’s redolent, charred voice are the core components of the Baltimore indie rock band.

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