The Antlers - Blight

The Antlers’ first new studio album in over four years, Blight, arrives via Transgressive Records on Friday, October 10. The album was first unveiled earlier this summer with the volatile “Carnage,” available at all digital services now. A roadkill murder ballad that lurks in a brooding crawl before erupting into a full-band maelstrom, the track sees Silberman’s roaring Telecaster swarming around longtime collaborator Michael Lerner’s cacophonous drumming, harnessing an energy the band has long conjured in a live setting but until now never put to tape. “Carnage” was met by praise and attention from publications around the world, including Pitchfork, Stereogum, Brooklyn Vegan, NME, and NPR, the latter of which hailed it as “beautifully dark” and “the best thing they’ve done since Hospice…So glad to have them back.”

The Antlers will celebrate Blight with a special album release show set for Wednesday, October 22 at New York City’s Le Poisson Rouge; tickets are on sale now. Next year will see the band embark on a series of EU/UK headline dates, beginning March 5, 2026 at Dolan’s in Limerick, Ireland and then visiting Dublin, Glasgow, Manchester, Bristol, London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Brussels. Artist pre-sales are available now; general on-sales get underway Friday, September 5 at 10:00 am (local). North American headline dates will be announced soon. For updates and ticket information, please visit antlersmusic.com/shows (contact us with any requests)!

The follow-up to 2021’s rustic, folk-tinged Green to Gold, Blight asks many questions without offering easy answers. Over the course of nine new songs, the Antlers’ founder and primary songwriter Silberman reckons with our passively destructive tendencies – absentminded pollution, unwitting wastefulness, and the inadvertent devastation of the natural world. But despite its heavy themes, Blight is far from a punishing listen. With its adventurous arrangements and persistent momentum, it plays more like an iridescent odyssey.

Blight was recorded over the course of a few years, with the lion’s share tracked and produced in Silberman’s home studio in upstate New York, a compact outbuilding perched at the edge of a neighbor’s sprawling hayfield.

“So much of the record was conceived while walking these massive fields,” he says. “I felt like I was wandering around an abandoned planet.”

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