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The Antlers Band Review
Indie | Monday 11th July 2011 | Osh
We check up on the The Antlers. Soon to be the next big thing the Antlers are the band of this months Guest List recommends section. Emerging from the bedroom of Peter Silberman’s New York bedroom, the band were originally a New York city solo project. Taking the band name from The Microphones song, Silberman recorded Uprooted and in the Attic of the Universe by himself. These days and a fair distant from his previous outlook, Silberman has joined forces with Michael Lerner and Darby Cicci to create the now Antlers trio. They went on to to record two new EP’s, Cold War and New York Hospitals, out of these came the March 2009 album Hospice.
This fascinating and incredibly diverse album, based on the telling of a relationship between a terminally ill patient and there hospice worker sold out and subsequently they signed to the New York based French Kiss Records later that year. This blew the band up into somewhat superstars, Silberman quoted as stating they “bit off more than they could chew”. This subsequently lead to them opening for the National in 2010’s Primavera Sound Festival. The highly anticipated follow up to Hospice came in May 2010, Bust Apart was released through French Kiss Records in America and Transgressive Records in the UK. The typically tricky follow up album draws its influence from “electronic music” and is an album everyone should definitely have in there collection.
