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Mar 27, 2015In confronting their own personal heartbreaks and terrors, she and her bandmates have created their most engaging and universal album to date.
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Apr 3, 2015While Hunter seems more enamored of radio hits by the likes of Gary Numan and Flock of Seagulls here, Lower Dens never quite settle into an easy genre hook.
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Apr 23, 2015Look past the pastel surface-level familiarity of Escape From Evil and you’ll find that no matter what tool-kit a band is equipped with, superb songwriting and refined attention to detail and aesthetics always prevail.
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Apr 2, 2015Escape From Evil can be seen as a coming back into the light, with a comparative brightness and lightness in sound.
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Mar 31, 2015Hunter is an enigmatic presence, and even with the all of the new trimmings, her rich alto always rises to the forefront, carefully shepherding in the band's newfound sonic might with equal parts audacity and vulnerability.
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UncutMar 30, 2015Escape From Evil is a record about grief, and at times hits hard. [May 2015, p.76]
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Mar 27, 2015Hunter sounds like a hybrid of Annie Lennox and Beach House’s Victoria Legrand on a collection of songs that take a welcome detour away from Nootropics’s exploration of transhumanism and instead focus on simpler matters of the heart.
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Mar 27, 2015This might not be their best work--that's still the cohesive, mind-altering Nootropics--but Escape From Evil finds Lower Dens continuing to push themselves into new sonic territory, the hallmark of any great band.
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MagnetApr 15, 2015Hunter applies her vampiest vocals yet, and it's a natural match. [No. 119, p.59]
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Mar 31, 2015The title may be a little hyperbolic, but what it lacks in realism it makes up for in groovy new-wave guitar licks, other-worldly instrumentation and production par excellence.
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Apr 20, 2015Escape from Evil might not change the world (unless you live for slightly off-kilter Eighties-style pop records, in which case, you should be thanking Lower Dens immensely), but it is all the more impressive because of its unexpected accessibility.
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Apr 1, 2015Escape From Evil is the most direct, and accessible album Lower Dens have yet made, augmenting their more experimental, Krautrock predilections with the buoyancy of brighter melodies while crafting nuanced, humanist pleas for compassion.
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Mar 27, 2015It’s actually quite an audacious album; it’s just that it’s so well articulated as to come across as serviceable. It is vain, self-serious, and predictable, but endearingly so.
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Mar 27, 2015[A] danceable set.
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Mar 27, 2015This is good library music, good record-browsing music, good train music, good bus music, good walking music. Or, if you live in LA, good driving music. As long as it’s at night.
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Apr 1, 2015The moody minimalism is still present, but under the rich vocal treatment the band sounds more subordinate and self-effacing, at times to a fault.
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Mar 30, 2015Escape From Evil feels like a case of one step forward, two steps back.
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Mar 30, 2015For listeners craving substance served side-by-side with flash, Lower Dens’ world is one worth exploring. The band may be at their most accessible, but they’re not about to make it easy.
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Positive: 22 out of 25
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Mixed: 3 out of 25
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Negative: 0 out of 25
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Jun 10, 2015