Antlers, The: Hospice (Coloured Vinyl 2xLP)

The Antlers immense and wildly popular debut album, Hospice, finally receives a proper widespread release through French Kiss. The album is a skyscraping blend of the ambient, passionate and anthemic. It sits somewhere between Antony Hegarty vocally, Bon Iver in the quiet moments and a schizophrenic Radiohead.

Hospice resonates on debilitating sonic and lyrical levels, from the hypnotic harp and tension-ratcheting build of 'Two' to the sing-or-sink choruses of 'Bear' and the speaker-rattling peaks of 'Sylvia'. However it's 'Kettering' that is the real show stopper as it's drenched in atmosphere and sorrow - one of the most beautiful and moving tracks in years.

White vinyl version.

1. Prologue
2. Kettering
3. Sylvia
4. Atrophy
5. Bear
6. Thirteen
7. Two
8. Shiva
9. Wake
10. Epilogue