Baltimore indie pop act Lower Dens have announced a new album,The Competition, out September 6th, with an unsettling new music video for its lead single.
In Young Republicans, the bands own Jana Hunter travels through a time warp Fifties nostalgia by way of the 1980s and ends up confronting a disturbing suburban cult dressed in red. Hunter goes from narrator of the cults seemingly benign activities to their prisoner and, eventually, an unwitting participant in a gruesome ritual. We wont spoil it here, but lets just say the socialite characters in the video are quite interested in consuming the lower classes both figuratively and literally.
The Competition will be the follow-up to Lower Dens 2015 albumEscape From Evil. Hunter said of the albums genesis in a statement: The issues that have shaped my life, for better or for worse, have to do with coming from a family and a culture that totally bought into this competitive mindset. I was wild and in a lot of pain as a kid; home life was very bleak, and pop songs were a guaranteed escape to a mental space where beauty, wonder, and love were possible. I wanted to write songs that might have the potential to do that.