{"id":486459,"date":"2019-05-30T09:04:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T15:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=842032"},"modified":"2019-05-30T09:04:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T15:04:29","slug":"watch-lower-dens-confront-a-cult-in-young-republicans-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/watch-lower-dens-confront-a-cult-in-young-republicans-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Lower Dens Confront a Cult in \u2018Young Republicans\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/lower-dens-music-video.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Baltimore indie pop act <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/lower-dens\/\">Lower Dens<\/a> have announced a new album,&nbsp;<em>The Competition<\/em>, out September 6th, with an unsettling new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/music-video\/\" id=\"auto-tag_music-video\" data-tag=\"music-video\">music video<\/a> for its lead single.<\/p>\n<p>In \u201cYoung Republicans,\u201d the band\u2019s own Jana Hunter travels through a time warp \u2013 Fifties nostalgia by way of the 1980s \u2013 and ends up confronting a disturbing suburban cult dressed in red. Hunter goes from narrator of the cult\u2019s seemingly benign activities to their prisoner and, eventually, an unwitting participant in a gruesome ritual. We won\u2019t spoil it here, but let\u2019s just say the socialite characters in the video are quite interested in consuming the lower classes \u2013 both figuratively and literally.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Competition<\/em> will be the follow-up to Lower Dens\u2019 2015 album&nbsp;<em>Escape From Evil<\/em>. Hunter said of the album\u2019s genesis in a statement: \u201cThe issues that have shaped my life, for better or for worse, have to do with coming from a family and a culture that totally bought into this competitive mindset. I was wild and in a lot of pain as a kid; home life was very bleak, and pop songs were a guaranteed escape to a mental space where beauty, wonder, and love were possible. I wanted to write songs that might have the potential to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lower-dens-young-republicans-music-video-842032\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore indie pop act Lower Dens have announced a new album,&nbsp;The Competition, out September 6th, with an unsettling new music video for its lead single. In \u201cYoung Republicans,\u201d the band\u2019s own Jana Hunter travels through a time warp \u2013 Fifties nostalgia by way of the 1980s \u2013 and ends up confronting a disturbing suburban cult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-486459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 04:34:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}