Music isn't the only way Hunter gives weight to ideas. She recently wrote an important piece on the nature of gender and the complexities of gender in everyday life in concrete situations, beyond the realm of theory.
The latest Lower Dens record, Escape From Evil, recalls the lush and dreamy yet vivid music of Marianne Faithful's classic 1979 album Broken English. What is perhaps most striking is the literary quality and rich conceptualization that seems to
“I can't remember really articulating this
“'Quo Vadis' is the Latin translation of 'Where are you going,'” she continues. “I feel like
Perhaps the most telling, however, is a song that slyly references Guy Debord's 1967 situationist classic Société du spectacle. “'Société Anonyme' is one of my favorites because I had the same misinterpretation that I think Dadaists who were American had and didn't understand the name,” muses Hunter. “It's just the French word for
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