The Antlers
Evolving from Peter Silberman's bedroom recordings to a fully realized band, for Brooklyn-based the Antlers, what started out as a solo lo-fi folk project, progressed quickly into a colossal-sounding chamber pop group. After self-recording a handful of albums in a kamikaze fashion -- Uprooted (recorded just before and after moving in 2007), The February Tape (recorded in a bathtub in an hour), In the Attic of the Universe (a single ambient song stretched into an album), and Cold War (an album with only acoustic guitar and vocals, recorded in a week) -- {$Silberm...[more]
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The Antlers wildly popular debut album,Hospice, finally receives a proper widespread release through Frenchkiss! Hospice resonates on debilitating sonic and lyrical levels, from the hypnotic harp and tension-ratcheting build of "Two" to the sing-or-sink choruses of "Bear" and the speaker-rattling peaks of "Sylvia," easily one of the year's most immediate epics. It's here, amidst contrasting shards of ambient noise, sweeping strings and smoky horns, where The Antlers truly transcend [ read more ]
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Peter Silberman's second release under the project name the Antlers, In the Attic of the Universe starts with over 60 seconds' worth of ambient noises that never quite coalesce into the sort of scene-setting picture in sound Silberman must have wanted. It doesn't bode well for In the Attic of the Universe, but within its first verse, the ensuing opening track makes up for its inauspicious beginning. "In the Attic" has the ramshackle feel of Neutral Milk Hotel's early home-recorded casse [ read more ]
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