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On their very strong sophomore album Nootropics, my toddler daugher’s favorite album of all time, the gooily expansive Baltimore guitar band Lower Dens expands its pallet with motorik beats and snatches of synthpop melody. We’ve posted the early tracks “Brains,” “Propagation,” and “Lamb,” and we’ve also run a Progress Report interview with bandleader Jana Hunter. [...]
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Earlier this year, the Baltimore band Lower Dens released their very good, krautrock-skewing sophomore album Nootropics, and my daughter still can’t fall asleep without listening to it. On the new three-song EP Nootropics Remixed, t... Read Post

I’ve had the digital promo of Nootropics, the sophomore album from Baltimore dream-rock band Lower Dens, for a couple of months now. And according to my iTunes, I’ve listened to its 10 songs an average of 106 times. I’ve mentioned t... Read Post

Lower Dens @ Chicago's the Riv, 10/1/2012 (more by Grant McAllister) Baltimore's Lower Dens went into new, motorik directions on their second album, Nootropics so it makes sense that tracks from the record might work well in the rem... Read Post