NEW ALBUM LENGTH FILM AVAILABLE TO WATCH NOW AT https://antlersmusic.com/greentogold
“Given how dark things are nowadays, The Antlers couldn’t have timed this pursuit any better.” – Paste
“A gentle, acoustic meditation, Silberman’s voice quietly mulling over twinkling and soothing instrumentation.” – Stereogum
“The album is full of sparse, roomy arrangements that mark a triumphant return from the duo.” – Uproxx
New York’s The Antlers will release the wistful Green to Gold this Friday, 26th March; their first new album since the 2014 release of Familiars. While segments of the film have been featured in the music videos for each of the album’s pre-release singles, the band has now debuted the full length film that accompanies the record this morning. Watch it now at https://antlersmusic.com/greentogold.
Directed by Derrick Belcham and Emily Terndrup, the film was created in collaboration with world-renowned contemporary dancers Bobbi-Jene Smith and Or Schraiber. The film follows the two dancers to a farmhouse nestled in the Catskill mountains where we explore multiple, non-linear time slices of their life together over its rich and dynamic course. As the leaves shift from young and lush greenery into the rich, colorful decay of the late autumn, the growth of the courtship, marriage, start of a family and all of the struggles that come with that journey are collapsed into one many-sided visual which attempts to portray the un-collapsible complexity of relationships through a combination of traditional narrative filmmaking and documentary.
“The New York group led by Peter Silberman has made some of the most ambitiously textured and atmospheric music in the last decade-plus of indie, diving deeper into the details with every successive release,” said veteran music journalist Larry Fitzmaurice. “Green to Gold is their first record in seven years, and like the others before it, it’s excellent and continues to push their tendency for lush arrangements and melodies that carefully reveal themselves.”
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.
“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.”
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