The Antlers have introduced their first new album in 4 years: Blight arrives October 10 through Transgressive. The band is sharing lead single “Carnage” right this moment, too, and it comes with a lyric video which you could take a look at beneath.
Discussing the backstory of the brand new music, the Antlers frontman Peter Silberman mentioned, “‘Carnage’ is a music a few sort of violence we not often acknowledge—violence not born of cruelty, however of comfort. Harmless creatures are swept up within the path of destruction as their world collides with ours, and we barely discover.”
Blight spans 9 songs and serves because the follow-up to 2021’s Green to Gold. Silberman and longtime drummer Michael Lerner invoke adventurous preparations whereas concerning themes of wastefulness, environmental devastation, and our passive destruction. The vast majority of Blight’s tracks have been recorded in upstate New York at Silverman’s house studio.
“These singles have been metaphysical songs about reference to nature, which in flip put me in contact with all of the ways in which nature is beneath risk,” added Silberman. “The odor of wildfire smoke on a sunny afternoon, the sound of chainsaws on a hike by means of the woods — these contradictions grew to become inconceivable to disregard.”
Learn concerning the Antlers’ basic album Hospice in “The Top 50 Albums of 2009” and revisit Jayson Greene’s essay “What Can Music Do During Climate Collapse?”
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Blight:
01 Take into account the Supply
02 Pour
03 Carnage
04 Blight
05 One thing within the Air
06 Deactivate
07 Calamity
08 A Nice Flood
09 They Misplaced All of Us
