The Antlers have introduced their first new album in 4 years: Blight arrives October 10 by way of Transgressive. The band is sharing lead single “Carnage” right now, too, and it comes with a lyric video you could take a look at under.
Discussing the backstory of the brand new tune, the Antlers frontman Peter Silberman mentioned, “‘Carnage’ is a tune a few form 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 relating themes of wastefulness, environmental devastation, and our passive destruction. Nearly all of Blight’s tracks had been recorded in upstate New York at Silverman’s residence studio.
“These singles had 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 via the woods — these contradictions turned unattainable to disregard.”
Learn in regards to the Antlers’ traditional 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 Contemplate 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
