Mixtape #20: Why don't we take the day off?

Tronics - "Time Off"

The Blood Feathers - "On A Holiday"

Tanlines - "All of Me"

Harlem - "Be Your Baby"

Lower Dens - "Blue & Silver"

Terry Malts - "Tumble Down"

The Tough Shits - "Heard She Kisses On The Mouth"

Father John Misty - "Nancy From Now On"

The Babies - "Here Comes Trouble"

The Strange Boys - "Doueh"

Robyn Hitchcock - "Television"

Cass McCombs - "Sacred Heart"

So Many Wizards - "Lose Your Mind"

The Creation - "Try and Stop Me"

The Velvet Underground - "I Found A Reason (demo version)"

The Chromatics - "Kill For Love"

The Walkmen - "Paper House"

Michael Hurley - "Be Kind To Me"

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Lower Dens :: Nootropics

I avoided liking Lower Dens for the longest time. Perhaps it's because the songs never make a grab for the listener with ear-candied hooks or obvious pop constructions. Instead, Jana Hunter and company deliver some of the more subtle, meditative, and hypnotic pop music I've ever heard, arming themselves with quietly delivered melodies and repetitive almost geometrical lines of intersecting rhythm. Tracks like "Rosie" and "A Dog's Dick" will creep into your ear canal unnoticed one moment, and the next seemingly unfold and blossom. The music simply gets more interesting and enjoyable with each repeated listen. Lower Dens' second proper studio album, the double LP Nootropics—named for the smart drugs that help improve mental functions like memory, attention span, and concentration—is due out May 1st on Domino's Ribbon Music imprint. The extremely promising locomotive-powered lead single "Brains"—which we featured in and named last month's Plastic Brains mixtape after—is out next week on the 27th as a 10" double A-side vinyl single along with "Propagation" and non-album track, "Hours."

Pre-order the 10" single (limited to 750 copies). Pre-order Nootropics (gold vinyl edition limited to 350 copies). 

Lower Dens - "Brains" (from Nootropics)
Lower Dens - "A Dog's Dick" (from Twin Hand Movement)

Mixtape #19: Plastic Brains

NoBunny - "Live It Up"
Air Waves - "Radio"
Nallo - "Submarines"
Crystal Stilts - "Through The Floor"
The Equals - "Police On My Back"
La Sera - "Please Be My Third Eye"
Lower Dens - "Brains"
Cass McCombs - "Prima Donna"
Tiki Men - "First Love, First Tears" (Duane Eddy)
The Lovely Bad Things - "I Just Want You To Go Away"
The Soft Pack - "Grinding Halt" (The Cure)
Neo Boys - "Time Keeps Time"
Grass Widow - "Lulu's Lips"
Mikal Cronin - "You Gotta Have Someone"
The Happy Thoughts - "Indiana Girls"
Paul Kane - "My Fair Baby's Coming For Me"
Ganglians - "That's What I Want"
Dean & Britta - "Not A Young Man Anymore" (The Velvet Underground)
Laughing Man - "Mood and Dress"

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