'The identity I performed for a long time was ingrained, and kind of almost entirely composed my armor against the world.' -- LowerDens' Jana Hunter
"When the people shall have nothing more to eat," goes the quote attributed to philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, "they shall eat the rich."
In contrast, there's the redemption of gorgeous opening track "Galapagos." "Let me hold you up to the light/ You belong here" it proclaims, an embrace of queer and trans youth that echoes the welcoming themes of songs Hunter recently chose for a. Second single "I Drive" celebrates the chosen families that queer people create when they're not accepted by blood relatives, while two mid-album tracks contemplate the darker side of relationships gone bust.
Yeah, that's a big part of it. And like, for me, my transition is really bound up in my family history and has affected my mental health. And so a lot of the time in these past four years was spent reckoning with that. And since I made that Tumblr post, I have made a lot of progress, in learning about myself, and coming to terms with things. But you know, the identity I performed for a long time was ingrained, and kind of almost entirely composed my armor against the world.
You've gotten comparisons in the past to sort of rich-voiced female singers. I've seen comparisons to like, Karen O or PJ Harvey…On to the record, and maybe "concept record" is overstating it, but I know there's a concept behind the titleYeah. The idea is kind of something that's been brewing in me for a long time. And it has to do with coming from a real working-class family.
Yeah, they do. I think [closing track] "In Your House" is the one that's pretty directly about him, about his invasion into our homes? But a lot of others, like "Empire Sundown" is a song that could have been written regardless of whether or not he was elected. I still feel like we were well on our way, careening towards this end-of-empire hoarding-and-fascism mode. And we probably would have gone there without him. Maybe.
In the middle of the new album, there are a couple of relationship songs, "Real Thing" and "Buster Keaton" – both lovely, but they seem to take a dim view of relationships. Are you kind of down on "the real thing"?
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