Album artwork for The Competition by Lower Dens
Album artwork for The Competition by Lower Dens

The Competition is the anticipated follow-up to Lower Dens’ critically acclaimed 2015 release Escape From Evil.

The title is lead singer and songwriter Jana Hunter’s term for a sociopsychological phenomenon that, in different ways, binds us all. The Competition is a pop album with a concept both emotionally and politically urgent.

Drawing on influences ranging across decades of Western pop music and chronicles messy, vulnerable humanity at a time of upheaval and chaos — through immersive, four-minute songs meant to give pleasure as much as provoke self-examination.

Lower Dens

The Competition

Ribbon Music
Album artwork for The Competition by Lower Dens
CD

$13.99

Released 09/06/2019Catalog Number

CD 40070

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Album artwork for The Competition by Lower Dens
LP

$20.99

Black
Includes download code
Released 09/06/2019Catalog Number

A 40070

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Lower Dens

The Competition

Ribbon Music
Album artwork for The Competition by Lower Dens
CD

$13.99

Released 09/06/2019Catalog Number

CD 40070

Learn more
Album artwork for The Competition by Lower Dens
LP

$20.99

Black
Includes download code
Released 09/06/2019Catalog Number

A 40070

Learn more

The Competition is the anticipated follow-up to Lower Dens’ critically acclaimed 2015 release Escape From Evil.

The title is lead singer and songwriter Jana Hunter’s term for a sociopsychological phenomenon that, in different ways, binds us all. The Competition is a pop album with a concept both emotionally and politically urgent.

Drawing on influences ranging across decades of Western pop music and chronicles messy, vulnerable humanity at a time of upheaval and chaos — through immersive, four-minute songs meant to give pleasure as much as provoke self-examination.