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There's an odd dichotomy at play on much of Lower Dens' exceptionally good second album Nootropics: music that is by turns hypnotic and enveloping, with subject matter, conveyed in vocals sometimes more discernable than others, that provokes, questions, observes, and even disturbs. In lead single and video "Brains", Jana Hunter addressed technology and its implications for our primal need to extend, and "enhance" life. 

On "Propagation" it's another impulse--the need to breed-- that's on the table. The compulsion to leave something of our species behind, to create, as Hunter sings, amid swirling sounds, a "population incandescent". That phrase alone surely must have been part of what prompted Sebastian Mlynarksi to come up with the idea for this video, which sets Hunter and her band mates in a Blair Witch-like woods in upstate New York, clad in ghostly, glowing beekeeper-meets-druid outfits, engaging in a ritual that seems simultaneously celebratory and menacing. 

You'll see the band talk more about the song and the video in an upcoming episode of Noisevox's Face Time, but for now grab a flashlight and head into the forest with Lower Dens, for our NV Music Video of the Day, "Propagation".