Album Of The Week: Lower Dens Nootropics

I've had the digital promo of Nootropics, the sophomore album from Baltimore dream-rock band Lower Dens, for a couple of months now. And according to my iTunes, I've listened to its 10 songs an average of 106 times. I've mentioned this a few times on Stereogum already, but it almost immediately became my daughter's favorite album of all time. My kid just turned three, but putting her to bed is this massive ordeal; I need to hold her and bounce her and pace back and forth across her bedroom for something like an hour, until she drifts off. By the end of it, my back is screaming at me. And her attachment to this album has become intense and kind of weird; she cries hard if I try to put on anything else. But here's a measure of how good this album is: I haven't gotten entirely sick of it yet.