Lower Dens Haunt a Karaoke Bar in "Sucker’s Shangri-La" Video

Lower Dens Haunt a Karaoke Bar in "Sucker's Shangri-La" Video

Lower Dens are about to hit the road in support of their excellent Escape From Evil LP. (Find their tour schedule below.) Today, they’ve shared a video for “Sucker’s Shangri-La” from the record. Directed by Zachary Treitz, the video features a man in a karaoke bar singing the song, as Lower Dens’ Jana Hunter sings the original in a karaoke video. Watch it below.

Here’s how Treitz describes the video:

The karaoke bars in my neighborhood have these filler videos as a background for the American pop songs. Most of them seem like they’re made in less than a day, start to finish, and they follow a basic formula, even though they’re unique to each song: girl, cars, body of water, shots of architecture. We made our own one with Jana in Baltimore, which was a lot of fun because once you’re in the mindset of those videos you start to see great shots everywhere that would otherwise seem terrible. But the music video itself takes place at a Chinatown karaoke bar, with the incredible Hiro Xu singing along to the video we made with Jana.

Read our Update interview with Lower Dens. 

Lower Dens:

07-16 Cincinnati, OH – MOTR Pub ~
07-17 Cleveland Heights, OH – Grog Shop ~
07-18 Louisville, KY – Forecastle Festival
07-19 Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall (Official Pitchfork Festival Afterparty) #
07-21 Minneapolis, MN – 7th St Entry ~
07-24 Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios ~
07-25 Vancouver, British Columbia – Electric Owl ~
07-26 Seattle, WA – Capitol Hill Block Party
07-28 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge ~
07-29 Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge ~
07-31 Dallas, TX – Granada Theatre (GorillavsBear Festival)
08-01 Austin, TX – The Mohawk (GorillavsBear Festival)
08-03 New Orleans, LA – One Eyed Jacks ~
08-04 Atlanta, GA – The Earl ~
08-05 Raleigh, NC –  Kings ~
08-13 New York, NY – MoMA Nights
08-21 Los Angeles, CA – The Echo $
08-22 Los Angeles, CA – FYF Festival
08-22 Los Angeles, CA – FYF Festival
10-24 Bristol, England- Simple Things Festival
10-25 Manchester, England – The Deaf Institute
10-26 Dublin, Ireland – The Sugar Club
10-27 Glasgow, Scotland – King Tuts
10-28 Leeds, Englnad – The Brudenell Social Club
10-29 London, England – Scala
10-31 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso (London Calling)
11-01 Brussels, Belgium – AB-Box (Autumn Falls)
11-02 Hamburg, Germany – Hafenklang
11-04 Copenhagen, Denmark – Loppen
11-05 Aarhus, Denmark – Radar
11-06 Lund, Sweden – Mejeriet
11-07 Oslo, Norway – Parkteatret
11-08 Stockholm, Sweden – Lilla Hotellbaren
11-10 Berlin, Germany – Bi Nuu
11-11 Prague, Czech Republic – MeetFactory
11-12 Vienna, Austria – Arena
11-13 Munich, Germany – Feierwerk
11-14 St. Gallen, Switzerland – Palace
11-15 Zurich, Switzerland – Exil
11-17 Lausanne, Switzerland – Le Romandie
11-18 Lyon, France – Sonic
11-19 Barcelona, Spain – La Apolo
11-20 Madrid, Spain – El Cielo
11-21 Lisbon, Portugal – ZDB
11-22 Braga, Portugal – GNRation
11-24 Paris, France – Badaboum*

^ with Viet Cong, Dave P (DJ)
~ with Young Ejecta
# with How To Dress Well
* with TEEN
$ with Empress Of

Watch Lower Dens do “I Get Nervous” at Pitchfork Music Festival:

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