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Once in a while you find an album, which just sort of evokes some sort of compulsive response. I've found myself salivating and listening to a tiny wee band from Brooklyn, New York called the Antlers. I bought their album off amazon yesterday, and it's all I've listened to. I love albums with a narrative, and prominent central characters, with this album I get both. It illicits something similar to what My Chemical Romance done with the Black Parade, albeit on a far more dark and caved level. The main character a young girl named Sylvia(Plath?) has bone cancer, she is dying, but she struggles to face the realities and consequences of which fate has brought her. It's such a stirring album, the band use so many different instruments, which just really toy with my heart strings. The lyrics are so sad and dangerously conflicting, made all the more aspiring when I had a wee browse at interviews and pages on detailing when the band formed and the themes they deal with. It's something I always do when I find a new band, maybe it's just me, but I love finding out about them, and finding out about what may have caused a four minute song to be created. It's ironic that most the time, I prefer when they don't fully disclose what the song is about. I guess that's why I love Brand New and AA Bondy so much, you know there is something more to the lyrics, but they keep them as secular myths, and it just makes me fall in love with the music even more.
Apparently Pete Silberman wrote the album before dissapearing for almost three years, leaving all his friends and family behind. I feel in a way he is the sort of character, I'm constantly studying in English just now. Which makes the timing of this musical discovery all the more worthwhile, almost. There are two songs in particular that I feel I could have written myself, they are that interchangeable with stuff I feel I've encounted. Like Pete, though, I'll just keep them to myself =). I feel the need to post a wee youtube experience up, though, much like I do with most stuff I like these days. Go to see them next week in the 13th Note, and I am so excited, I've never seen a band I really like there.
Apparently Pete Silberman wrote the album before dissapearing for almost three years, leaving all his friends and family behind. I feel in a way he is the sort of character, I'm constantly studying in English just now. Which makes the timing of this musical discovery all the more worthwhile, almost. There are two songs in particular that I feel I could have written myself, they are that interchangeable with stuff I feel I've encounted. Like Pete, though, I'll just keep them to myself =). I feel the need to post a wee youtube experience up, though, much like I do with most stuff I like these days. Go to see them next week in the 13th Note, and I am so excited, I've never seen a band I really like there.
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