I have been waiting for the last few weeks for a version of this song to become available on their website or youtube. So finally after a long wait something even better has come along. An embeddable stream of the album that the band has released - complete with a sweet visualizer. I wish every band released this type of thing. The first song I heard off their most recent album, Hospice, was "Kettering" - the the second track on the album (skip ahead to this one if you are impatient and don't understand long ambient intros into albums.) Hospice is a concept album of sorts and handles a rather heavy subject matter with ambient indie rock. It's pretty sweet.
While their stuff may not be for everyone, much like a lot of stuff I put on this blog, I am absolutely in love with this song. This album, Hospice, is by far my favorite of their works. On another closely related subject let me say that I am excited to see what is yet to come this year. 2009 is looking to be a pretty awesome year for music. There has already been a few great albums in my mind -
Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion being one of them. This album is set in my mind to be in, at the very least, my top 10 of 2009.
The singer for The Antlers at times reminds me of Jeff Buckley, which is pretty cool (I should post a few of his songs for any of you who have not heard him). Regardless of who The Antlers remind me of this is very strong album. I dig it. I hope you do too.
