Twin-Hand Movement
Album | Lower Dens
Singer-songwriter Jana Hunter returns with a full band.
As a solo artist, Jana Hunter is known for making spooky folk-pop that would sound appropriate at a basement make-out party in a haunted house. It’s not surprising then that her new Baltimore-based band would take that same vibe and expand upon it. The tunes on Lower Dens’ debut album, Twin-Hand Movement, vascillate pretty evenly between shimmery shoegaze garage ("Blue and Silver") and reverby dirges that stretch on past the six minute mark ("Plastic and Powder"). While Hunter and her cohorts aren’t exactly reinventing the wheel here, the album does have an urgency and a lovely melodicism that her previous solo records often lacked. Whether it be incorporating elements of freak-folk or building songs off of kraut-rocky repetitions, Lower Dens manage to take lots of disparate elements and morph them into an exhilarating, if sometimes murky, whole.
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