The Antlers have returned with information of ‘Blight’, their first album in 4 years – hear to guide single ‘Carnage’ beneath.
The New York duo, at present comprising singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Peter Silberman and drummer Michael Lerner, will launch the album on October 10 by way of Transgressive Data, and it’s out there to pre-order right here.
‘Carnage’ is a brooding sluggish burner, beginning off mellow earlier than erupting round Lerner’s drums after which descending into fuzz, with hard-hitting lyrics describing violence in opposition to animals encountered on a street journey.
“Carnage’ is a tune a couple of sort of violence we hardly ever acknowledge — violence not born of cruelty, however of comfort,” mentioned Silberman of the monitor. “Harmless creatures are swept up within the path of destruction as their world collides with ours, and we barely discover.”
Examine the one out right here:
Following the discharge of their sixth album, ‘Inexperienced To Gold’, in 2021, the band shared a collection of standalone singles. Silberman’s ambient supergroup aspect undertaking, Cowboy Unhappiness, launched an album final yr, too.
After the hotter, folk-infused ‘Inexperienced To Gold’, ‘Blight’ is about to check out human wastefulness and devastation with extra direct lyrics over a wide range of sounds. It was recorded over the course of some years in Silberman’s New York dwelling studio on the fringe of an enormous hayfield.
“A lot of the report was conceived whereas strolling these large fields,” Silberman defined. “I felt like I used to be wandering round an deserted planet.”
He added: “The results of accelerating know-how and environmental neglect really feel imminent; that sense of urgency made me wish to converse extra candidly. The current-day specifics are so unsettling, and tomorrow’s prospects are so surreal … there’s no must mince phrases.”
The ‘Blight’ tracklist is:
- ‘Contemplate The Supply’
- ‘Pour’
- ‘Carnage’
- ‘Blight’
- ‘One thing In The Air’
- ‘Deactivate’
- ‘Calamity’
- ‘A Nice Flood’
- ‘They Misplaced All of Us’
Final month, The Antlers performed a handful of reveals with Texas indie rockers Okkervil River as a part of their ‘An Intimate Night with The Antlers & Okkervil River’ tour, the primary leg of which occurred in October 2024.
A dwell album from the tour, ‘Band Collectively’, got here out on April 30 this yr.