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Nootropics by Lower Dens
Nootropics is an album by Lower Dens, released in 2012. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 1 countdown appearance in total. The biggest is “Brains”, on 1 list with a best position of #99.
Nootropics, the second album from Baltimore's Lower Dens, came out on April 30, 2012, the band's first for Ribbon Music, the Domino-run label, after their debut Twin-Hand Movement appeared on Gnomonsong. Jana Hunter had put the group together in 2010 after a solo career and a last tour with a backing band that turned out to be more fun than going it alone.
The sessions took the band to the Key Club Recording Company in Benton Harbor, Michigan, with Drew Brown producing, an engineer who had worked as an assistant to Nigel Godrich. You can hear the care in the result: indie rock that hums and glides more than it lunges, cool and hypnotic. "Brains" went out as a single before the album and got the Stereogum spotlight that week, and it sits second in the running order. Escape from Evil came next.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Nootropics on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brains | 1 | #99 | – | 2013 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.