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The Antlers
The follow-up to 2021’s Green to Gold, The Antlers’ new album Blight finds Peter Silberman confronting humanity’s quiet destructiveness—pollution, waste, and the erosion of the natural world. Though heavy in theme, Blight is anything but bleak; its lush arrangements and evolving structures make it feel like a radiant, dreamlike journey.
Recorded over several years in Silberman’s upstate New York studio, much of the album was inspired by walks through the surrounding fields. “I felt like I was wandering around an abandoned planet,” he says. That sense of solitude and wonder runs throughout Blight, which unfolds like near-future science fiction—each track shifting shape from delicate folk to expansive electronica.
Since the breakthrough success of 2009’s Hospice, Silberman has explored profound emotional terrain, expanding The Antlers’ sound through Burst Apart, Undersea, and Familiars before pausing after a hearing injury. Following recovery, he and drummer Michael Lerner returned with Green to Gold, signaling renewal and calm.