The Antlers Emerge From Silence With "Blight"
- Charles Luberisse
- Jul 31
- 1 min read
Written By: Big C
“Will we be forgiven should there come a great flood to drown out our decisions?” After four years of eerie quiet, The Antlers return with Blight, a ghostly, genre-defying album that dares to name the unspoken. Out October 10, the record is led by the darkly vivid single Carnage, a brooding murder ballad which starts with hushed menace and spirals into a chaotic, full-band eruption. Once known for the whispered grief of 2009’s Hospice, Peter Silberman now trades metaphor for clarity, confronting themes of environmental collapse, passivity, and unspoken complicity. The band’s founder and creative force, Silberman says:
Carnage is a song about a kind of violence we rarely acknowledge violence not born of cruelty, but of convenience.
"Blight" doesn’t just reintroduce The Antlers, it redefines them. Recorded in his upstate New York studio, the album pulses like a warning signal from a not-so-distant future. For longtime fans, the album echoes the band’s fearless evolution; from the aquatic wanderings of Undersea, to the brass-tinted soul of Familiars, to the minimalist meditations of Silberman’s solo Impermanence. Pre-order "Blight" and stream “Carnage” below. Brace yourself for an album that haunts and confronts by following The Antlers on FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, TWITTER, and YOUTUBE.
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