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Lower Dens Setlist
07-24 Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
Read More07-25 Vancouver, BC – Electric Owl 07-28 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge 07-29 Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge 08-04 Atlanta, GA – The Earl 08-05 Chapel Hill, NC – King’s Barcade
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Young Ejecta
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Young Ejecta's music is a little synthpop and chillwave, often a slow burn of moody electronic hums and beeps. Macomber would perform with her eyes closed and just singing or doing sign languages with her arms. I got the feeling that she's in a world of her own, forgetting that she's playing in front of hundreds of people.
Then she's back on earth, and asking the audience, "Are you having the best night of your life?", proceeding to play "Recluse". Then she lay on the floor for a full minute, before getting back to the microphone to sing some more lyrics.
Macomber did most of her singles, including "Welcome to Love", and the recent "Into Your Heart". Most of these songs can be found her their sophomore album The Planet, which came out January 27th, 2015, via Driftless Recordings.
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Then the music started, and would continue until midway when Hunter thanked and name dropped several Minneapolis bands she love, like Dark Dark Dark, Beat Detectives, Anonymous Choir, etc.
Then before their hit song "Société Anonyme", where normally they would end their set before the encore, Hunter talked about the last time she was in town (solo) with Sharon Van Etten in 2014. She sneaked over to 7th Street Entry, next door, for the Amen Dunes show, and witness a live stage smudging. No one knew what she was talking about, she had to explain that it was like spirit cleansing ritual by Native Americans.
Instead of doing the fake leaving and coming back on stage, Hunter said that they have just been playing "really long sets" instead. They played a few more songs, before ending with their Hall & Oates cover song "Maneater". She also ended her set with "Maneater" when she played solo last year, and I noted back then, and I'll stand behind it now, that her version is better because suddenly the pop/upbeat song is now a sad/depressing song.
Lower Dens' Escape from Evil is out now on Ribbon Music.
Lower Dens at 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis (21 July 2015) |
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