The Antlers distinctive mix of raw emotion and almost otherworldly arrangements to
cast the present moment in a new light. One able to take something
familiar and apparently ordinary and reveal it as anything but, be that
the calamitous consequences of our consumerist culture or else the
oft-ignored beauty of the natural world which stands to be lost as a
result. As Peter Silberman concludes: "These songs were born out of an attempt
to come to grips with my guilt." Lead
single "Carnage" introduces these themes with equal parts anger and
grief. The Antlers have long possessed the uncanny ability to take
subtle, introspective tones and blow them widescreen, and the new single
is no different. A track which morphs from sparse, plaintive beginnings
into a full band swirl, its stark imagery detailing not only the cost
of humanity’s current mode of living but how we so often remain
oblivious to the damage wrought. "Carnage" is a song about a kind of
violence we rarely acknowledge," Silberman explains. “Violence not born
of cruelty, but of convenience. Innocent creatures are swept up in the
path of destruction as their world collides with ours, and we barely
notice." The lyric video was created by Ryan Hover.
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