Antlers

“the intoxicated, lonely lurch allows you to envision him on his worst behavior...An appropriately sinister and alluring tribute to therapeutic value of hotel living [of Hotel]” - Pitchfork

“Hotel trades on the Antlers’ strengths: drowsy horns, twin- kling keyboard bits, muted guitar, and lyrics that confront mortality” - SPIN

“The Antlers make music more for the heart and the brain than the feet. This cut from the Brooklyn-based band is a gorgeous, soaring ode to innocence [of Palace].” - NPR

In seven years together, Brooklyn’s The Antlers have created a quiet revolution in thought and sound with their harrowing and often haunted tales of love unmoored, human frailty and emotional evisceration. On Familiars, their fifth album, and first for new home ANTI-, The Antlers – vocalist / guitarist Peter Silberman, multi-instrumentalist Darby Cicci, and drummer Michael Lerner – have resumed the journey they began with 2009’s Hospice and continued over the next two albums Burst Apart and Undersea, which found the trio picking their way through a labyrinth of fear, doubt, love and loss against a backdrop of layered textural songs that were as deeply atmospheric as they were anthemic. More hopeful in mood than its predecessors, the new album emanates a palpable release of despair and an almost operatic verve on nine songs that took shape over the past year and a half. “We became really obsessed with Alice Coltrane’s journey in Satchidananda, Charles Mingus’ The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady, and Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew,” says Cicci. “We wanted to connect to the humanity of music from the past,” adds Silberman. “To capture grace and the heart within those performances.” So this time around The Antlers made a soul record in the truest sense of the word. Sure, they inundated themselves with Al Green, Nina Simone, and The Memphis Boys, but really they were making music about that mysterious and ineffable part of yourself. The metaphysics behind the physics: they found that they had made a record that was able to express the unseen.

The Antlers are on tour now, contact us for opportunities!

RIYL: Beach House, Rhye, Youth Lagoon, Sigur Rós, The National
DIRTY: #3, 4, 7 (Clean of #3 on DL page!)
TRY: #1, 5, and clean edit of #3

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