Lower Dens confirm UK tour for Jan 2020 including London’s Tufnell Park Dome
Confirm UK & European tour dates
New album The Competition out now
“Darkly gleaming and hopeful synthpop panoramas” Uncut” “Young Republicans” is an anthemic, smooth synthpop song that reminds me of what might’ve happened if New Order had come up in the streaming era.” Stereogum“[“Young Republicans” is] a flashy visualization of the dark and urgent satire that lies beneath the song’s energetic disco vibes.” The FADER“A potent, politicised return”The Line of Best Fit 8/10“An LP for our times” Q“Subversive synth-pop marvel” Record Collector 4* “The follow-up to 2015’s Escape from Evil adds an urgency to the band’s darker synth tones, a compositional reflection of the capitalism-spurred distress at the album’s thematic core.” Consequence of Sound “Young Republicans is Eurythmics for millennials” Prog “Striking” Clash“Lower Dens’ fourth LP The Competition melds unsparing assessments of capitalism and its dog-eat-dog struggle for status and stuff, reflections on relationships gone wrong, radical empathy and lush, sparkling, orchestral synth-pop.”Billboard
Last month, Lower Dens released The Competition, their critically acclaimed fourth album. A leftfield, resistance pop record that could only be released in 2019, it is lead singer and songwriter Jana Hunter’s (pronouns: him/his) most vulnerable, hook-filled album yet. Having just finished a North American tour with Of Monsters and Men, Lower Dens will round out the year playing Pitchfork’s Octfest in New York State and a show in Mexico City. Additionally, they have just confirmed a UK and European tour for January 2020, their first shows here to support the new LP. By design, competition is the driving force of modern capitalism, and The Competition is Jana Hunter’s term for a socio-psychological phenomenon this generates, a kind of psychosis that accelerates our insecurities and anxieties to the point of total overload, corroding our intimacies, our communities, and our senses of self. Hunter says, “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.”
Upcoming live dates
19th October – Maspeth, NY @ Pitchfork Octfest1st November – Houston, TX @ Axelrad Beer Garden2nd November – Mexico City, MX @ RadioBosque Festival–Sat 11th January – Rotonde – Botanique, Brussels Tickets
Sun 12th January – Melkweg, Amsterdam TicketsMon 13th January – Turmzimmer, Hamburg TicketsTues 14th January – Frannz Club, Berlin TicketsThurs 16th January – Bar Brooklyn, Stockholm TicketsFri 17th January – Loppen, Copenhagen TicketsSun 19th January – Artheater, Cologne TicketsMon 20th January – Milla, Munich TicketsWed 22nd January – Palace, St Gallen TicketsThurs 23rd January – Rocking Chair, Vevey TicketsFri 24th January – Le Grand Mix, Tourcoing TicketsSat 25th January – La Boule Noir, Paris TicketsMon 27th January – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds TicketsTues 28th January – The Blue Arrow Club, Glasgow TicketsWed 29th January – YES, Manchester TicketsThurs 30th January – Tufnell Park Dome, London TicketsFri 31st January – Rough Trade Bristol, Bristol TicketsSat 1st February – Patterns, Brighton TicketsTickets for UK and European dates go on sale 4th October at 10am BST
Watch the “Young Republicans” video
Watch the “I Drive” video HERE.
Watch the lyric video for “Galapagos”
The Competition is available to buy on limited pressing clear vinyl with exclusive Lower Dens enamel pin, CD, and digital download. Buy: Ribbon Mart | Digital Lower Dens Online:
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