THE ANTLERS’ FAMILIARS
NOW STREAMING ON NPR, OUT JUNE 17
VIA ANTI- RECORDS
“HOTEL” VIDEO PREMIERES AT PITCHFORK
PLAYING ROUGH TRADE JUNE 17,
WORLDWIDE TOUR STARTS JUNE 25
The Antlers’ highly-anticipated fifth studio album Familiars is now streaming exclusively on NPR Music. NPR calls the record “sure-handed and ambitious” and praises “its emotional openness, its rich sound, its mix of subtlety and grandiosity, its funereal beauty.” Stream the album here. Familiars is out June 17 on Anti- Records and on Transgressive Records in the U.K. June 16.
The band will play an intimate show at Brooklyn’s Rough Trade NYC on release day; fans who purchase the album at Rough Trade will receive a pair of wristbands for the show and can also win access via Flavorpill here.
Pitchfork recently premiered the video for “Hotel,” the second pre-release track available from the album, watch it here. Of the track, SPIN says, “‘Hotel’ trades on The Antlers’ strengths: drowsy horns, twinkling keyboard bits, muted guitar, and lyrics that confront mortality, whether they're intended to or not.” To celebrate the release of the album, the band will embark on a nationwide tour with stops including New York, Chicago and two nights at Los Angeles’ Troubadour on June 25. Preorder Familiars here: http://bit.ly/Qz3Tf8.
First single “Palace” premiered to wide critical acclaim:
“A prettily mournful music box melody.”—Stereogum
“A lovely and glowing lullaby...”—Consequence of Sound
“Sounds like The Antlers saying ‘we’re back.’”—Brooklyn Vegan
“Trembling show of instrumental melancholy.”—Drowned in Sound
“Even stronger, more decisive and prettier than ever before…”—Revolt
Familiars, the band’s fourth studio album, follows 2011’s critically lauded Burst Apart, which Pitchfork named Best New Music and NPR called “a delicate mixture of grace and intensity.” Familiars was recorded, engineered and produced by the band in their Brooklyn studio and mixed by Chris Coady (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio, Beach House) at DNA Downtown Studios.
The Antlers is Peter Silberman, Darby Cicci and Michael Lerner. Silberman founded The Antlers in 2006 as a solo project and released two bedroom-recorded LPs before enlisting Cicci and Lerner to round out the group. As a trio they recorded and released 2009’s breakout Hospice and Burst Apart, as well as the 2012 EP Undersea.
THE ANTLERS TOUR DATES
June 17 Brooklyn, NY Rough Trade
June 25 Cambridge, MA The Sinclair
June 26 Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer
June 27 Toronto, ON The Mod Club
June 28 Columbus, OH A&R Music Bar
June 29 Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall
July 1 Minneapolis, MN Triple Rock Social Club
July 2 Kansas City, MO The Riot Room
July 3 Denver, CO Bluebird Theater
July 5 Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge
July 8 Vancouver, BC VENUE
July 9 Seattle, WA Neumos
July 11 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
July 12 Los Angeles, CA Troubadour
July 13 Los Angeles, CA Troubadour
July 16 Solana Beach, CA Belly Up Tavern
July 17 Phoenix, AZ The Crescent Ballroom
July 19 Dallas, TX Trees
July 20 Austin, TX The Parish
July 21 Houston, TX Fitzgerald’s
July 23 Atlanta, GA Masquerade
July 24 Raleigh, NC Kings
July 25 Washington, D.C. 9:30 Club
July 26 New York, NY Webster Hall
FAMILIARS TRACK LIST
1. Palace
2. Doppelgänger
3. Hotel
4. Intruders
5. Director
6. Revisited
7. Parade
8. Surrender
9. Refuge
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