Escape might not leap out of your car speakers at first, but it's one of the year's only albums that I've liked more each and every time I've heard it.Īs aggrandizing as this might sound for a guy still toiling in relative anonymity, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better American songwriter that Mikal Cronin. The soaring breakthrough moments of To Die in L.A. and Company certainly rebut this notion, but they too owe their power not only to the LP's masterful sound mixing, but also Jana Hunter's soaring voice, one of the most unique to enter indie music in quite some time. Tunes like Sucker's Shangri-La and Your Heart Still Beating find a riff or rhythm that cradles the ears, wherein each strum bounces endlessly off of studio walls, and are as happy to stay put as we are.
Hailing from Baltimore, the four musicians who make up Lower Dens craft songs that seems to locate a place of rosy, reverberating beauty, and stay there for longer than most outfits would have the courage. We're now at least a solid decade into the music industry's fascination with emulating and updating the sounds of the 80's, yet there's still something about Escape From Evil that feels markedly different.
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