The Antlers Announce First Album In Four Years 'Blight', Share New Song Carnage
Tuesday, 29 July 2025
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: K Hover
The Antlers, the musical project of Peter Silberman, have announced their first new album in four years.
'Blight' will be released through Transgressive Records on October 10, following up 2021's 'Green To Gold'. Comprising nine tracks and tackling themes of environmental destruction, it was recorded over a couple of years, mostly tracked and produced in Silberman's home studio in upstate New York, an outbuilding tucked away at the border of a neighbour's hayfield.
"So much of the record was conceived while walking these massive fields. I felt like I was wandering around an abandoned planet," said Silberman.
Continuing on the record's themes, he added: "The consequences of accelerating technology and environmental neglect feel imminent; that sense of urgency made me want to speak more candidly. The present-day specifics are so unsettling, and tomorrow’s possibilities are so surreal...there’s no need to mince words."
The album details arrive alongside the new single Carnage, which opens with dark, staccato keys before building to a more traditional indie-rock track.
"Carnage is a song about a kind of violence we rarely acknowledge — violence not born of cruelty, but of convenience," Silberman explained. "Innocent creatures are swept up in the path of destruction as their world collides with ours, and we barely notice."
Since 'Green To Gold', Silberman and long-time drummer Michael Lerner have released a string of standalone singles under The Antlers name, including Need Nothing, Tide, Rains, I Was Not There, and Ahimsa.
"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," said Silberman. "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."
He has also been active with other projects, co-producing Wild Pink's 2022 breakout LP, 'ILYSM', and releasing 'Selected Jambient Works, Vol 1' last year, the debut album from Cowboy Sadness, his instrumental group with Bing & Ruth (David Moore) and Port St. Willow (Nicholas Principe).
'Blight' tracklist:
1. Consider the Source
2. Pour
3. Carnage
4. Blight
5. Something in the Air
6. Deactivate
7. Calamity
8. A Great Flood
9. They Lost All of Us
NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
We don't run any advertising! Our editorial content is solely funded by lovely people like yourself using Stereoboard's listings when buying tickets for live events. To keep supporting us, next time you're looking for concert, festival, sport or theatre tickets, please search for "Stereoboard". It costs you nothing, you may find a better price than the usual outlets, and save yourself from waiting in an endless queue on Friday mornings as we list ALL available sellers!
