The Antlers are back with a new album, “Blight”, the follow-up to 2021’s “Green to Gold“. It finds singer-songwriter Peter Silberman exploring the impacts of accelerating technology, artificial intelligence, and environmental neglect. “I felt like for the sake of the message of this record and what I was trying to get across with these songs, the details were what was going to make the difference, because they create an image that you then see in your mind and can be hard to shake,” he said in our inspirations interview. “‘Carnage’ is talking about these different instances of accidental animal cruelty, and for me, when I had seen some of that, I can’t erase the image from my mind. And it changes the way I think about the creatures I’m sharing space with.”
The Antlers have announced a new album. Blight, the follow-up to 2021’s “Green to Gold”, arrives October 10th via Transgressive Records. I enjoyed the band’s last album, but there’s nothing on it quite like the new single ‘Carnage’, which, in its hushed devastation, might stand among Peter Silberman’s best.
“‘Carnage’ is a song about a kind of violence we rarely acknowledge violence not born of cruelty, but of convenience,” Silberman said in a statement. “Innocent creatures are swept up in the path of destruction as their world collides with ours, and we barely notice.”
“Blight” was tracked over the course of a few years, with most of the recording and production taking place in Silberman’s home studio in upstate New York. “So much of the record was conceived while walking these massive fields,” he explained. “I felt like I was wandering around an abandoned planet.”
Expounding on the newfound directness of his lyrical approach, Silberman added: “The consequences of accelerating technology and environmental neglect feel imminent; that sense of urgency made me want to speak more candidly. The present-day specifics are so unsettling, and tomorrow’s possibilities are so surreal… there’s no need to mince words.”
Following “Green to Gold”, Silberman helped co-produce Wild Pink’s breakout “ILYSM” and released the debut album from Cowboy Sadness, his instrumental band featuring David Moore (Bing & Ruth) and Nicholas Principe (Port St. Willow).
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