Yet another post on The Antlers…

August 24, 2009
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Peter Silberman of The Antlers

I’ve already mentioned the Brooklyn trio here, here, and here throughout A Round of Sound’s short history, but I just feel it necessary to bring up their amazing album Hospice whenever I get a chance.  And well, another opportunity has presented itself as their live show from the August 21st Hospice re-release concert has been made available to download in its entirety.  The show can be downloaded here, but I of course suggest picking up the LP which after the Frenchkiss re-release is finally starting garner the praise it deserves.  It may be backwards to say this, but the live show doesn’t do the album justice…seriously.

Speaking of praise, Pitchfork finally got around to reviewing it and honored it with their Best New Music tag and recommended it on their ABC World News Webcast feature here.  Oh, and finally, you can catch their first video supporting the album which is of “Two”, one of the best songs of the year.  Phew! Ok, I promise no more Antlers news for a while…maybe


Frenchkiss Picks Up Hospice

May 18, 2009

antlers_hospiceBack what seems like ages ago, I made mention of the brilliant album Hospice by The Antlers as one of, if not my favorite albums of the year so far.  What I didn’t mention is that Hospice was self-released by The Antlers which may have something to do with what little press it has been getting outside of the blog world.  Well, news has surfaced that Frenchkiss Records has picked up Hospice and plans to remaster the album before re-releasing it in August.  I expect a similar reaction to the release that surrounded Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago when it was re-released on Jagjaguwar last year (without the whole controversy of releasing an album in two different years that screwed around with soooooo many “Best of” lists).  So, a nice little week for Frenchkiss, which as I recently noted has an album being released tomorrow that could also be one of the year’s best.  Anyway, this is very cool news for The Antlers, and very well deserved.  So here’s another track from Hospice as well as the two that I featured back in my original post.

[“Kettering” – Hospice]

[“Bear” – Hospice]

[“Two” – Hospice]