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Lower Dens
with guests:No Joy Alan Resnick 
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Lower Dens released their beguiling, well-received, debut album "Twin-Hand Movement" in July 2010. Their latest album, "Nootropics", is similar in its full depth and range of its formidable charms which unfold over multiple listens - it's a grower, and accordingly, Lower Dens' popularity and acclaim grew and grew too. Since the release of "Twin-Hand Movement", they were asked to join bigger and bigger tours, with the likes of Bear in Heaven, the Walkmen, Beach House, and Deerhunter, and wound up playing around 200 shows in that grueling 12-month span, developing the kind of musical telepathy that only relentless touring can bring. Somehow, amid all the travel, Jana Hunter, the band's leader, had to write songs for the next album. So she got a keyboard - an instrument she doesn't really know how to play - plugged in some headphones, and began composing, writing most of "Nootropics" in the back seat of the Lower Dens tour van as it rolled down the interstates. And that's what "Nootropics" is all about. The album is the second of a four-album cycle that the band had planned from the very beginning of its existence. Where "Twin-Hand Movement" was about community, using the band's native Baltimore scene as a springboard and inspiration, "Nootropics" is the next step.
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