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Wayward Sounds: A Festival of Curious Music at 3S, is something of a statement of purpose, a Whitman's Sampler, filled with the kinds of far-flung sounds you can expect from 3S Artspace. 

Wayward Sounds: Lower Dens w/ Gem Club

On Escape from Evil, Lower Dens' Jana Hunter emerges: cerebral and hot-blooded, rash and incorruptible, and, crucially, possessing of a loud, clear voice. The album sees Hunter stepping up and taking center stage, and emboldening every aspect of the band. Lower Dens' 2010 debut, Twin-Hand Movement, was a stunning evolution of guitar brilliance and murky emotiveness, which its 2012 follow-up, Nootropics, was a stark, textured paean to experimental bands of the krautrock era. Escape from Evil marks a bold, monumental step forward for the band and a welcome manifestation of a singer we've never quite seen until now.