Lower Dens Share Video for New Song “Real Thing”: Watch

Lower Dens have shared a video for a new song called “Real Thing.” Below you can watch the music video, and find Lower Dens’ current tour dates. The video, directed by SSION’s Cody Critcheloe, depicts Jana Hunter performing the song against a black background, interspersed among scenes of people dancing. “Real Thing” was written by Hunter along with Arthur Bates and Ariel Rechtshaid. The song was also produced by Hunter, with additional production from Rechstaid, and mixed by Henrik Iivari.

In a press release, Hunter said:

Initially, I wrote ‘Real Thing’ with my friend, musician Arthur Bates. Arthur and I have had a very long, intense, chaotic and very close friendship. He’s also been a major influence on me personally and artistically. I love him. When we’re together, the air is full of intense melancholy, reckless abandon, and a very goofy kind of dark humor. Somehow in our years of knowing each other we’d never written a real song together. We got together specifically for that purpose, in Houston, the town where we met, and wrote this song in about an hour. The lyrics were inspired by an advice column in an old copy of Oui magazine I found in Arthur’s apartment. The woman writing in to the column seemed genuinely torn between her love for her husband and her desire to fuck around. I find that kind of selfishness entirely relatable, the kind of thing all of us know about ourselves and find nearly impossible to admit. Those kinds of simultaneously internal and yet universal struggles bring me to tears. What if we could all acknowledge just those kinds of flaws, accept them, resolve not to judge each other? I mean, who wants this misery? This alienation? The greed that follows generations of repression? The jealously, oppression and injustice that come next? No. Hell no. If that’s reality, I don’t care to be a part of it. Or at least that’s how I let myself feel from time to time, until I realize I love people and I’m part of the community of humankind and if things are gonna be better for anybody it’s on me to do my part. Might seem like a lot but, for me, it’s all in this song.

Last, I wanna acknowledge Ariel, Caleb and Henrik who contributed writing and engineering. They all added so much and I’m very grateful. And of course, to Arthur as well, I owe so much. Thank you, my friend.

The visuals are 100℅ Cody Critcheloe AKA SSION, whose vision I will always follow to its realization. I have immense respect for him.”

Lower Dens are currently on tour with Explosions in the Sky. Find the dates below. Their most recent album was 2015’s Escape From Evil. 

Read our “Update” with Lower Dens, and Jana Hunter’s “Op-Ed: White Privilege and Black Lives in the Baltimore Music Scene” on the Pitch.

Lower Dens:

09-12 Indianapolis, IN – Deluxe at Old National Center %
09-13 Columbus, OH – Newport Music Hall %
09-14 Cleveland, OH – Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
09-15 Detroit, MI – Masonic Temple Theatre %
09-24 Albany, NY – Larkfest
09-30 Brooklyn, NY – Pioneer Works 
10-01 Harrisburg, PA – Makespace Music Festival
12-17-18 Houston, TX – Day For Night
05-11 Baltimore, MD – Joseph Myerhoff Symphony  

% with Explosions in the Sky

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

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