The Antlers Announce New Album ‘Blight’, Share New Song ‘Carnage’

The Antlers have announced a new album. Blight, the follow-up to 2021’s Green to Gold, arrives October 10 via Transgressive Records. I enjoyed the band’s last album, but there’s nothing on it quite like the new single ‘Carnage’, which, in its hushed devastation, might stand among Peter Silberman’s best. Check out a lyric video for it below, and scroll down for the album cover and tracklist.

“‘Carnage’ is a song about a kind of violence we rarely acknowledge — violence not born of cruelty, but of convenience,” Silberman said in a statement. “Innocent creatures are swept up in the path of destruction as their world collides with ours, and we barely notice.”

Blight was tracked over the course of a few years, with most of the recording and production taking place in Silberman’s home studio in upstate New York. “So much of the record was conceived while walking these massive fields,” he explained. “I felt like I was wandering around an abandoned planet.”

Expounding on the newfound directness of his lyrical approach, Silberman 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.”

Following Green to Gold, Silberman helped co-produce Wild Pink’s breakout ILYSM and released the debut album from Cowboy Sadness, his instrumental band featuring David Moore (Bing & Ruth) and Nicholas Principe (Port St. Willow).