Depressing music is the tits. Elliott Smith, Sparklehorse, Band Of Horses, The Postal Service, Death Cab, send those sweet sweet noughties tears my way. One of the hallmarks of this traumatic yet blissful genre is lyrical depth, and The Antlers have it covered. The emotional, lo-fi garage rock of Hospice and Burst Apart sparked an epidemic of […]
On the eve of The Antlers’ US tour in support of their fantastic new album, Familiars, I got to talk to the band’s affable multi-instrumentalist Darby Cicci about band board meetings, helping listeners deal with their problems and… Theon Greyjoy. Congratulations on the album! I think you’ve done a great job. You’ve said before you […]
The Antlers will always be a relatively successful and highly acclaimed “indie rock” band at a base level. However, unlike their contemporaries – bands like The National (I suppose) – The Antlers won’t be getting very much Triple J play at all. This would regularly come down to their sound being “too sad”. But Familiars isn’t sad; […]
So we’re coming in to the back end of the year and it’s absolutely insane how much fresh new music is about to be released. It is mental. In light of that, we thought we’d get some buzz going for some of the albums we’re particularly hanging out for! Here’s what our research has yielded […]
Weekly Playlist 78 features The Cast of Cheers, St Lucia, We Are Augustines, Zulu Winter, The Antlers, Beirut, and Snakadaktal
The Antlers perform “Putting The Dog To Sleep” live in Studio-A for The Alternate Side.
Week two already! Here’s 10 tracks we’re listening to right now. Features Phoenix, The Canvas Kites, Yuksek and others.