Over the course of nine new songs, the Antlers’ founder and primary songwriter Silberman reckons with our passively destructive tendencies – absentminded pollution, unwitting wastefulness, and the inadvertent devastation of the natural world.

Despite its heavy themes, Blight is far from a punishing listen. With its adventurous arrangements and persistent momentum, it plays more like an iridescent odyssey. The album features the title track, punctuated by a stuttering pulse, with lyrics that respond to modern society’s compulsion to consume – likening it to ravenous moths. It finds its place in an album that asks us to examine the ways we interact with the natural world and reckon with the reciprocity of this relationship. A lyric video is streaming now on YouTube, watch it below.

“‘Blight’ is a song addressing consumption through two lenses,” says Silberman. “The first zooms in on my inner tension around convenience, and the bargaining done to justify the environmental cost. I tell myself, ‘I do the best that I can.’ The second zooms out on an insect infestation devouring everything in its path. Maybe these insatiable swarms are simply doing the best they can, too.”

Blight is a song cycle that feels like science fiction, sounding as if it were delivered from the near future. The album is a work of meticulous world-building, teeming with ear candy and surprising stylistic shifts. While many songs begin with sparse elements— a fingerpicked guitar, hypnotic organ stabs, or a nimble piano melody — they rarely remain tethered to their foundations. They often reimagine themselves partway through, shifting mid-track from gentle ballad to throbbing electronica, only to land somewhere entirely different by the end.

Blight was recorded over the course of a few years, with the lion’s share tracked and produced in Silberman’s home studio in upstate New York, a compact outbuilding perched at the edge of a neighbor’s sprawling hayfield.

“So much of the record was conceived while walking these massive fields,” Silberman says. “I felt like I was wandering around an abandoned planet.”

Blight was first unveiled this summer with the volatile “Carnage.”  A roadkill murder ballad that lurks in a brooding crawl before erupting into a full-band maelstrom, the track sees Silberman’s roaring Telecaster swarming around longtime collaborator Michael Lerner’s cacophonous drumming, harnessing an energy the band has long conjured in a live setting but until now never put to tape. “Carnage” was met by praise and attention from publications around the world, including Pitchfork, Stereogum, Brooklyn Vegan, NME, and NPR. Following “Carnage” was the release of the second single, “Something in the Air.” “Something in the Air” is a chilling song that illustrates an ambiguous, unnamed threat, calling to mind any number of distressing headlines, and containing the album’s most explosive moment – a blown-out orchestral jump-scare underscoring the implied force majeure. 

Tour dates:

THE ANTLERS – LIVE 2025-2026

OCTOBER 2025

18 – Ellenville, NY – Everything Nice [In-Store]

22 – New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge

MARCH 2026

5 – Limerick, IE – Dolan’s
6 – Dublin, IE – Whelan’s
8 – Glasgow, UK – King Tut’s
9 – Manchester, UK – YES
10 – Bristol, UK – Strange Brew
11 – London, UK – EartH Theatre
13 – Paris, FR – Petit Bain
14 – Amsterdam, NL – Zonnehuis
15 – Brussels, BE – AB Club