The Competition
The fourth album from Lower Dens, The Competition is a pop album with a concept both emotionally and politically urgent, dealing with modern capitalism and its psychotic effects. Its 11 songs range in scope from the personal to the political, but overall express an epiphany: you need radical and unquestioning compassion for yourself if you’re to reimagine what society could be.
The sleek Baltimore synth-pop band's latest might be their most explicitly political and theoretical work, tackling nothing less than the socio-psychological ravages of capitalism.
Ditching the accompanying band for his new album, Jana Hunter embraces the 80s aesthetic further on his fourth effort.
A lot can change in four years — just ask Lower Dens. Since releasing their acclaimed third album Escape From Evil in 2015, the Baltimore dr...
The end of Lower Dens’ video for “Young Republicans” shows a scene of people in red suits in a red room eating Jana Hunter’s insides.
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Lower Dens' new full-length The Competition, album review by Adam Fink. The full-length drops today via Ribbon Music and various streaming services