Antlers
Pitchfork: Best New Track! - "Drift Dive"
The Antlers’ debut on ANTI- continues the evolution that begun with the acclaimed albums Hospice and Burst Apart. The Brooklyn trio recorded their new record, Undersea, earlier this year. Before they tell you about it, let us say that we are very happy to have them with us.
“In January, after returning home from a year of touring, we started something new. We knew not what it would become and had no purpose but to see what could happen in two and a half months of recording in our studio. We started from nowhere, and inadvertently tapped into a new beginning-the despair of Hospice and the subsequent recovery in Burst Apart felt like a closed chapter, and we suddenly felt the immense freedom to change the subject entirely. We let our creative instincts lead us forward, and they brought us here, to Undersea. It’s an attempt to begin to express and communicate something bigger, something outside of ourselves and harder to explain.
“The record begins with the dream of a peaceful flood, followed by an existential re-evaluation in the face of massive, all-encompassing change. We take a deep breath in, a slow breath out, and take stock of where we’re at."
“Undersea is the feeling of suspension. Memories suspended in time and space, energy suspended in the air around us. It’s the serenity of drifting off to sleep or of sinking to the bottom of the ocean. Time slows and stretches."
“We’ve searched for sounds that are patient and meditative, mellow and colorful and intended to calm. There’s a subtle but insistent pulse that leaves room for the music to breathe and expand. These songs are not in a hurry, and they take their time to unfold. In one sense it is familiar and terrestrial. But there‘s also a strange, fantastic, and largely as-yet-unknown world below the surface. The result is a kind of oceanic lucid dream of the future.”
RIYL: Youth Lagoon, Perfume Genius, Wu Lyf, Beach House
TRY: #1, 3, 4
The Antlers - Drift Dive by antirecords
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