MUSIC
The Antlers
Healing sounds from a big-city hermit
An urban recluse to rival Bon Iver's woodland anchorite, Antlers mastermind Peter Silberman has exorcised some serious demons. After holing up in his Manhattan apartment for almost two years, the 23-year-old singer/songwriter emerged from isolation with Hospice, an introspective orchestral-rock chronicle of his sojourn.
Hospice offers an inviting vision of solitude. Silberman's sweeping falsetto dives across ghostly swells of sound, as shoegazey feedback wraps around strings. We wouldn't call it happy, but it's certainly welcoming.
Silberman's songs are grounded in mighty metaphor. Documenting the life of a young man wracked by the simultaneous decay of a terminally ill associate and a romantic relationship, the record is a profound mediation on love and loss.
It may be a future classic. NPR's All Songs Considered guru Robin Hilton called the Antlers' debut "one of the most beautiful and moving works I've heard in a long, long time."
Check out the band's Hospice blog, stream the entire album, download two earlier EPs for free, and purchase the full-length.
- Andrew Phillips
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