Nootropics
Ribbon
2012
Rating: 8 tin cans out of 10
Baltimore - so hot right now! Add Lower Dens to the list of hot-shit band's coming out of the the home of "The Wire." Actually, maybe you already added them after their debut "Twin-Hand Movement," a fine record but not nearly as impressive as this one. You can feel the band's growth here, and while the elements that make up this new batch of songs might be the same the construction feels different - more confident maybe, more comfortable in their own skin, or some such claptrap. To boil it down to it's simplest terms, this band is what you'd get if Blonde Redhead listened to a ton of Kraftwerk and Can and then wrote a new record under that influence. Since they are also from Baltimore you'll also hear comparisons to Beach House, but for my money Lower Dens are far superior musicians and songwriters. The opening three tracks "Alphabet Song," "Brains," and "Stem" (with the last two basically functioning as one track) are as strong an intro as an album can possibly have. From there you're just sucked in.
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