The Antlers, the indie-rock band that signed the second best album in 2009 for the writing of Jenesaispop, ‘Hospice’, just behind The XX debut, returns with a new album. ‘Blight’ leaves October 10. ‘Blight’ will not take long to arrive as ‘Green to Gold’, which was the first album of The Antlers in seven years.
‘Blight’ will deal with issues such as ecological anxiety and human impact on nature. Vocalist Peter Silberman conceived him “for long walks through open fields,” feeling “as if he were on an abandoned planet.” This time, he has chosen to write more direct letters to express the way in which “our daily decisions seem insignificant, but can add to a disastrous problem.” For Silberman, the “consequences of technological accelerationism and ecological negligence seem imminent.”
‘Carnage’, the first advance, focuses on animals, collateral victims of the ecological disaster. «It is a song about a type of violence that we rarely recognize: a violence that is not born from cruelty, but of convenience. Innocent creatures are dragged by the path of destruction when their world collides with ours, and we barely notice it, ”says the group.
‘Carnage’ is both beautiful and devastating. Built on a base that alternates keyboard notes played in staccato and piano, the song leads to a melancholic indie-rock crescendo, typical of The Antlers.
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