New York duo The Antlers have debuted a Take Away Show with La Blogotheque today; watch it HERE. Filmed in Hobart, NY with director Derrick Belcham, the session features performances of the songs “Just One Sec” and “Porchlight” from the band’s latest album ‘Green to Gold’.
“ ‘Green To Gold’ is a vivid batch of plaintive indie ballads, songs tinged with roots-rock, ornate ’70s pop, and a whole spectrum of gorgeous sounds in between,” said Stereogum. “Peter Silberman’s voice continues to quaver with in the midst of it all with a pleasing mix of strength and fragility, translating scenes from his own life into ambiguous drama. It’s an album well worth your time.”
Conceived and written almost entirely in the morning hours, Green to Gold is the band’s most luminous music to date. “I think this is the first album I’ve made that has no eeriness in it,” singer and primary songwriter Peter Silberman asserts. “I set out to make Sunday morning music.”
Unlike other Antlers albums, Silberman didn’t feel compelled to turn a human experience into a circuitous mythology. He chose a more direct approach: documenting two years in his life, without overthinking or obscuring what the songs were about. “Most of the songs on Green to Gold are culled from conversations with my friends and my partner. It’s less ambiguous about who’s speaking and who’s listening,” says Silberman resolutely.
But the biggest difference between Green to Gold and The Antlers’ back catalog is its arrival at a kind of quiet normalcy after a number of rather anxious records, in the same way Neil Young’s Harvest Moon does; a softer, gentler album that the august artist made after recovering from a case of tinnitus, something Silberman has also had previous issues with.
“Green to Gold is about this idea of gradual change,” he sums up. “People changing over time, struggling to accept change in those they love, and struggling to change themselves. And yet despite all our difficulty with this, nature somehow makes it look easy.”