Lower Dens - Brains Lyrics

Song of the decade. Yeah man

Discovered in 2019, still best song of 2019

At first I was thinking it's Aubrey Plaza! 😂

Benim dilimi konuşan kimse bu limana varacak mı acaba

Old Father Time catches up with us all Licky...😕

Saw a video of a skating dude with this song. Searged in the commend section for an name saw a name Lower Dens and typed it and scrolled and my first click was right to this one. Nice

God made this. A genius channelled it to us.

Here from thrasher. Great song to skate to

Audio is way to low.

Had forgotten about this from a few years ago. What a gem. Shoot... Anthem more like it. :)

1:41 - 3:29 is one of my favorite moments in music i've ever heard

One of the best modern, and way underappreciated bands. I just love their sound.

Such a great great song.

I know it's been 5 years since then, but PLEASE listen to the entire album. It's a life changing experience, not kidding.

Beyond perfection...

intelligently designed🤖

when you re that cool, you can make a music video with only face.

So beautiful. love this band.

Certain elements of this song remind me of Breather by Chapterhouse.

i can actually tell its a woman, you people who cant discern the difference between a man and woman are obtuse to say the least. lol shes just androgynous.

Look for the laryngeal prominence or Adam's apple whenever in doubt :)

Goes by they actually

it's got nothing to do with that, it's respecting THEIR identity.

is she a man?

If your friends don't know who Lower Dens are recommend this song

@ColoredSpaces

Franklin Bluth Heard you got kids all over town.

Cute Baby. Nearly Perfect Song.

Starting the day
Staying awake
Everything will change
While you're asleep
While you're breathing
Do you believe?
No one is waiting
Brains without names

I found myself turning back to look
At the seas of people beneath me
Betrayed the design by release of immature emotion
I went to work
Had my suit jacket and hat in hand

A gate's crashed and flung wide
Used by our servants;
Heads are hanging
I went to church and forgot I ever could believe
Questions for the past of their clear minds
Were their thoughts without designation and division
Something desperate's up my sleeve
And no lines allow for mapping
Cause I close my eyes and feel the teeth of the machine
Walking on
Us underneath
Ever harder to believe
I was ever holding my suit jacket
And hat in hand
Your nightmares/your creation
I objected with a knife
And when I finally let my guard down
I was in the middle of the sea and drowning

Don't be afraid
Don't be afraid
Everything will change
While you're asleep
While you're breathing
Do you believe?
No one is waiting
Brains without names

(: suuper! thanks?

not that great, sorry

Perfect to listen to on long journeys

+Joshua Lucas yep. going to see them in DC and planning on playing it on repeat

trucking though Colorado with this on repeat

yay! I am seeing them in Detroit in September

Simply, amazing, and so much more.

esta canción me ha volado los cesos, supongo que por eso se llama "brain" fuckin great song!

it's a women!?? :OOOOO

+Erika Arredondo it's a person.

I thought it sounded like a bloke tbh when I first heard it. Astounded it was a woman. Ignore Mrs PC gone mad above.

hahaha 

+Erika Arredondo it's a genderqueer

This song makes me tear up every time. I love it so much

Sounds like Wolf Like Me form T.V. on the Radio :o still nice

Finally addicted to something good.

listening on loop

baby steve buscemi

if only my laptop would play this louder ...

Maybe, ita certainly hard to listen to with water running

Get a small portable speaker, it helps

Also adds a bit more bass

@brunobliss then turn the water off LOL

If only the machines' rise against us would be so beautiful.

I got my rejection letter to graduate school today. I also found this song and it made me feel a little better and like a little less of a failure. 

@Megan Beth if it makes you feel a bit better...i spent 11 years in college and the highest degree i have is bachelor's... didn't leave me any room for a higher degree : [

@Megan Beth YES !!!!! The miracle of great music. W/o this music and my dog I would have swallowed the pistol a long time ago.

@Terry Barham LD music changed my life. Have you listened to their new album?

@Lauren Shettler you guys check out my channel. I just uploaded a live video of this song from last Friday's show

no disrespect to your situation but fuck grad school. It's just more debt piled on to all the debt you accumulated in college

I'm up to my eyes in school loans

this is saving me from death.

+noneofyoucanspell best comment I've ever read

Can't escape death it's just around the corner, nothing anybody can do about it. Still I know what you mean, your friend Hugo thou I don't know you, wishing you only the best. Homeless in Sun Valley, California stay strong till the end.

Honestly, this might be my favorite song of all time.  Anyone know some artists like this?  Listened to both of Lower Dens' albums but nothing even came CLOSE to this.

@Dashaya Toney go to reddit

+Kyle W. Baker both hands are from Baltimore. lower dens is playing in druid hill park sept. 5th I believe

eh foxygen might help u out, there not a very well known band but their definitely worth checking out

Try Stereolab. A sort of Angle-French Lower Dens, with asymetric bobs.

Echoes of Joy Division :)

Janna breaks gender barriers on so many levels. It's amazing.

@EmporerAxel I think it's naive to think feminist movements would lose momentum had equality been achieved. But that's because I don't buy into the idea that there is still a "long long way" to equality in most sectors of society because I believe claims like these are to be supported by both facts and an objective oriented way of thinking, Where you acknowledge the problem and set the goals you want to reach. Saying we have a "long long way" to achieve something no one has ever even correctly defined like social equality is a wonderful tool of manipulation and it can be used any time without us even seeing it coming. It is especially dangerous when believing in it becomes the status quo. When that happens, the burden of proof is set on those who disagree with it (which, in my opinion, is the standard way of thinking. Just imagine I had simply said I didn't agree with the first comment without any logic support. I would've been seen as a bigoted idiot who hates everyone that doesn't look like the usual man or woman), and using logic on people who don't acknowledge its value can be really hard. I don't want to sound like a lunatic but controlling masses' behaviour and thinking is not a major task. Hitler did it for a long time and that's just one example.

About feminists not controlling the media; I think that they don't need to actively demonstrate power since they own the status quo but it's undeniable (at least from what I'm used to seeing) that the amount of feminist friendly articles and overall rhetoric in the media is way more prevalent than anti-feminist thinking. Besides, feminism (earlier, more acceptable forms of it) has been around for almost a century and I dare to think it has been a big topic since the very beginning. Anyway, I don't oppose its earlier forms. It's just 3rd wave that bothers me.
 Although I agree with you that it's taboo, I think that only goes to show how much it really is the status quo because uninformed people dare not to address it out of fear of being wrong when they put it into question. Then again I'm not saying there are no retrogrades and close minded far right wingers that see it as taboo because their misogyny does not allow them to think otherwise but that's not the norm, and frankly those people are elders mostly so they won't be around for a long time. But I don't know, I'm speculating mostly.

Anyway, if they don't own the media they still own Academia, and education is not to be made fun of. It's a BIG pillar of modern society and if we let them be the sole providers of knowledge in that slice of the society we're gonna have big problems in the future. 

Anyway, I digress immensely. I disagree with you on a vital point. When you say:
"There is no need to celebrate "normal" gender expression at the moment because no one is discriminated against for it."
I don't think celebration should come from seeing someone being courageous and passively "fighting" whatever oppression they are allegedly feeling (as I said, I don't think it has significant value nowadays) because I see it as having a potential for hate and discrimination against both whoever disagrees with it and/or whoever is not allegedly oppressed. Instead, I think we should focus on whether or not that person has done anything of value for the society and judge them based on that. This works if you don't think this person is in any way limited to produce valuable actions by the alleged oppression, like myself. But it can also work if adopted your point of view, since fighting that oppression is something she would be able to do and so constitute a valuable action towards society. In this scenario she would be "inspiring" not because she looks "like a boy" but because she has done something awesome like donating money to stop Boko Haram from killing innocent girls or, at a lower level, for speaking out against what she perceives as being signs of privilege for white, cis, trans, gay, male, female, black, gender ambiguous or not, etc. people and, therefore, being valuable to achieve any kind of equality. You can argue that it is so hard to show yourself as someone ambiguous (that the oppression is so strong) that filming herself already constitutes a valuable action. I wouldn't agree with that because I don't see inequality to be strong enough anywhere in the West to make that a hard enough effort to deserve merit. In undeveloped countries it might have been different, but here it's like filming yourself if you're ugly or fat or have a lazy eye. I like to believe we have evolved to a point where showing yourself as gender ambiguous is so trivial that it shouldn't be seen as a great achievement. Thanks for making it this far, it's been awesome talking with you. :)

P.S: "Abnormal" definition: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/abnormal

I was not using it in a derogatory sense, I used the inverted commas to suggest it was more like the synonym of "unusual" than like a synonym of "unaccepted". So, at least in my respect, your argument is invalid. That's because my "abnormal" was purely the expression of a statistical truth: people like this are not common, they're a minority. They don't lose the status of person because of this. It just means you don't see them as often. So it doesn't prove any prejudice, it just proves they're not common. It's like saying left-handed people are "abnormal", I'm left-handed and I agree with that. :D  But I get your point anyhow, I just don't agree with it. Thanks again!

Well, I just typed out a response and it appears Youtube ate it so I'm done hahaha. But yeah, I get where you're coming from but I think it just comes down to our having different experiences of society. I think people can be admired both for personal intergrity as much as their compassion or other character traits. If something like gender expression were really so "trivial" in western society today I doubt that we'd even need to be having this conversation. The truth is it's easy to dismiss gender expression that deviates from the norm as trivial if you've never experienced it firsthand. There's certainly a lot more prejudice than is noticeable at first glance or in the media because people are less forthcoming about it, it's about dismantling internalised prejudices and biases (which is what a lot of 3rd wave feminism focuses on and why a lot of people who haven't dealt with to a great extent, or come to appreciate, subtle sexism that is prevalent in our culture tend to disagree with it) that people experience on a daily basis. Oh, and I took abnormal to mean "unaccepted" rather than "unusual", so that was probably a miscommunication. Anyway, it's been nice having a decent conversation in the Youtube comment section about this kind of stuff haha:)

@EmporerAxel That's ok. I guess it's a way of looking at it. I don't have much more to say, so have a nice day! :)

You too buddy:)

True Janna breaks gender barriers, but saying she does so "on so many levels" is a bit of an exaggeration. No?

He looks like a male Aubrey Plaza.

he is a woman

Oh shit

@ubertuna1 i know i was confused too for a while i had to look up....at first i saw a woman, then a man, then a woman and kept wavering ..... so hard to know for sure!!!

They is most respectful.

Jana is gender fluid. S(h)e is beautiful.

At the end, did anyone else think genuinely, "yes! we made it through the video without cracking a full smile!" ?

No. But now i failed.

does this song ever get old. no? ok.

JANA HUNT ER RRR HUAJAJAJANA

JANNAAAAAAAA
YAS

one of the best song of the year

It's Pat.

For some reason this really reminds me of Ergo Proxy.

It happens. I feel sorry about them, lol

I don't know why this comment received so many thumbs down. Sun in Your Eyes is an AMAZING song.

If you think anybody is going to remember this derivative BS in a few years, your kidding yourself. Lower Dens greatest claim to fame thus far is making it onto the Banana Republic Factory Store seasonal play CD. Relegated to a commercial soundtrack to a boring retail store, nice.

Okay, I just found this band tonight after a friend emailed me and told me it was like Siouxsie and the Banshees. I love this stuff!

It's actually a women... Jana hunter ;)

Jana Hunter fucking rules.

I think you have a bad taste for music...

i listen to sun by grizzly bear and im now i want to kill myself just knowing that people like that kind of music.

i think i have an addiction to constantly find good music.no matter how many songs i download im never satisfied.It drives me crazy that theirs really great songs i never heard of out in the world which i probably will never hear.

Yeah, he does look like a baby Steve Buscemi

e si si sentono bene....

greatest actor of all time

SavageMusicClique said: "Jana Hunter is the woman in the video. Most of the vocals in this song are Geoff Graham... a man."
But then he removed his comment. I wonder why.

Is that a man or a woman?

No one gives a shit. Just enjoy good music bro.

My new go to song for getting my dreary ass out of bed.

Vocal sounds like Karen O

Jana is an incredible talent. I am totally fascinated by this album. I have been listening to it for a year now. The theme is intriguing. The music and lyrics are incredible. Ah-mazing talent!

If u like this u may like Moscow Metro - Spirit of a city, a new post punk band from Ireland..

The song is preety nice, but there's no fucking doubt that Sun is in your eyes from Grizzly Bear is the best 2012 song

HA! I totally thought oy Steve Buscemi immediately too! Then I remembered he has a son who is in a band, so I thought maybe this was him but it's not.

Manyvision brought me here (Fronton pro 2012 dec6 IBA world tour)

great video!

so much music so little time...

woo bmore!

Great song. Great performance. Great video.

6M - bringing the best to those that will appreciate it. My copy already ordered.......

how does nobody know that this is possibly the best music video ever made?

This is one of the most perfect songs ever written.

@MecuryClock yes very "Motorik" drumming.

My fave thing about December tbh.

Wow, thank fck for end of year lists... I may have never discovered these guys otherwise. Along with many others.

see pitchfork top 100 songs of the year, number 84

I listened to this album/band for the first time last night and was blown away. Very Neu!-esque drumming.

I'm with you. This song is gonna be hard to repeat for anyone in the future and I'm surprised it's getting snubbed from songs of the year lists. I think people just haven't found it yet, or listened to it enough

this song, this album, this band, makes wanna scream, laught, and cry I cant belive the level of perfection of this music, is from another lever, this is amazing, this song really touch my BRAIN and makes me feel the best feel ever, EPIC

Beautiful music. I've met Jana Hunter and she's lovely!! think I scared her with my blatant gushing adoration though :p

Song of the year, in my opinion.

This band is on another level, people don’t realize it. If Lower Dens passes their whole career in obsurity people are going to look back a couple decades from now and they’re gonna be like “how the fuck?”

Wow, this is really great...

Listened over and over to this tonight... Makes me feel wonderful...

Could have been a little farth escaping too!

when it starts reminds me the track "Dont' say no" (Can, from the album Saw Delight).
and i like it.

Love the smile at 0:46 ; )

No deep review or analysis. I fucking LOVE this song & video to bits. Thats all.

That is always quite a journey. I came from black metal shoegaze, took me an hour to get here.

I've returned from the weird side of youtube to listen to some great music.