The Antlers – the band and recording project of Peter Silberman – have announced their eagerly awaited new album, Blight, arriving via Transgressive Records on Friday, October 10. Pre-orders/pre-saves are available now. The Antlers’ first new studio album in over four years, Blight, is heralded by the premiere of the volatile “Carnage,” available at all digital services now and can be heard below. A roadkill murder ballad that lurks in a brooding crawl before erupting into full-band maelstrom, the track sees singer-songwriter-guitarist-producer Peter Silberman’s roaring Telecaster swarming around longtime collaborator Michael Lerner’s cacophonous drumming, harnessing an energy the band has long conjured in a live setting but until now never put to tape.
“‘Carnage’ is a song about a kind of violence we rarely acknowledge — violence not born of cruelty, but of convenience,” says Peter Silberman. “Innocent creatures are swept up in the path of destruction as their world collides with ours, and we barely notice.”
During these intervening years between Antlers albums, Silberman and Lerner kept busy as well, releasing a series of free-standing singles unified by The Antlers’ gift for acid-dipped timbres, shape-shifting production, and impressionistic imagery.
“These singles were metaphysical songs about connection with nature, which in turn put me in touch with all the ways that nature is under threat,” he says. “The smell of wildfire smoke on a sunny afternoon, the sound of chainsaws on a hike through the woods — these contradictions became impossible to ignore.”
Tracklist:
Consider the Source
Pour
Carnage
Blight
Something in the Air
Deactivate
Calamity
A Great Flood
They Lost All of Us
