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 this moment, too, and it comes with a lyric video which you can take a look at under.
Discussing the backstory of the brand new track, the Antlers frontman Peter Silberman mentioned, “‘Carnage’ is a track a couple of type 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 Inexperienced to Gold. Silberman and longtime drummer Michael Lerner invoke adventurous preparations whereas concerning themes of wastefulness, environmental devastation, and our passive destruction. Nearly all of Blight’s tracks have been recorded in upstate New York at Silverman’s residence 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 below menace,” added Silberman. “The scent of wildfire smoke on a sunny afternoon, the sound of chainsaws on a hike by way of the woods — these contradictions turned unimaginable to disregard.”
Learn in regards to the Antlers’ traditional album Hospice in “The High 50 Albums of 2009” and revisit Jayson Greene’s essay “What Can Music Do Throughout Local weather Collapse?”
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Blight:
01 Think about 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
