Lower Dens will release the Escape from Evil LP via Ribbon Music on March 31st in North America, and this week they premiered a new video for their amazing track, “To Die In L.A.“. Directed by SSION’s Cody Critcheloe, the video stars multimedia artist Actually Huizenga as a lonely starlit trapped inside the warped shell of her own fame. According to Critcheloe, the song inspired him to write a video treatment around Huizenga, his friend and muse, and that she appears here, “…dressed up in all of my current obsessions/impressions of L.A. as an outsider…”. Lower Dens’ Jana Hunter also makes a cameo, and her brooding presence here, distanced and watching Huizenga in a sort of rapt attention, can be seen as an embodiment of our own voyeuristic lurking–what happens when we become just passive observers in the hyper-mediated spectacle of our current culture.
Lower Dens are planning a brief US tour beginning this March. While more dates are to be announced, here is what is currently scheduled…
Thurs, March 19th – Northampton, MA – 13th Floor Lounge
Fri, March 20th – Hudson, NY – Half Moon
Sat, March 21st – Burlington, NY – Monkey House
Sun March 22nd – Hamden, CT – Space
Wed April 1st – Baltimore, MD – Floristree
