Lower Dens are back later this year with a new album titled The Competition, and the picture of this new effort from the Baltimore duo comes into immediate view on its disco-fed lead single, “Young Republicans.”
“In every generation there are those who just don’t fit in,” sings Jana Hunter over a pulsating electro thrust. “We never asked to be this way, born without souls or blood or skin. We’re young Republicans.”
The single, complete with video directed by Raul Gonzo, available to view below, helps shape Lower Dens’ forthcoming record, which is out September 6 via Ribbon Music. The concept album has pop music at its core, lyrically surrounded by current themes of resistance and a notion of how competition remains the driving force of modern capitalism and what it is doing to our daily lives.
“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,” says Hunter. “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.”