The Antlers: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert From The Archives
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- We've been filming Tiny Desk concerts for more than 10 years. While revisiting our archives, we discovered that some of our earliest concerts never made it to CZcams!
Watch The Antlers’ Tiny Desk concert from 2010: www.npr.org/2010/03/15/124585...
Robin Hilton | March 15, 2010
Sometimes the good guys win. Back in January 2009, hardly anyone had heard of the rock band The Antlers. The trio, featuring Peter Silberman, Michael Lerner and Darby Cicci, had recently finished a homemade CD called Hospice. The three were playing a smattering of shows in noisy clubs and were lucky if 20 people showed up. Some of the more curious listeners would leave with one of those hand-pressed albums, not realizing what a rare collectible it would become.
In the months since, something happened. Fans fell in love with the three unassuming guys from Brooklyn, their epic and heartfelt shows and, most of all, Hospice. Frontman Silberman's elegy to a dying friend is full of tremendous grief and longing. But instead of evoking despair, the poetry, soaring orchestrations and Silberman's delicate falsetto left listeners in awe at how fragile and beautifully mysterious life can be. By August, Frenchkiss Records had given Hospice a proper release, while the band booked sold-out shows at the Bowery Ballroom in New York and other venues generally reserved for more established acts.
When a group of us from the NPR Music team caught a show by The Antlers in Washington, D.C., a year ago, the band was still finding its way. This past fall, when The Antlers played a sold-out concert at the CMJ Festival in New York, the group stunned listeners with its extraordinary range, moving seamlessly from quiet moments of grace to thundering swells of chaotic noise.
That said, for this Tiny Desk Concert performance, Silberman, Lerner and Cicci pulled way back and gave an amazing, stripped-down performance of three songs from Hospice: "Bear," "Atrophy" and the haunting "Sylvia." We couldn't have been happier to have them, or happier for the success the band has had this past year.
Set List:
"Bear"
"Atrophy"
"Sylvia" - Hudba
Hospice is one of the most melancholic, beautiful and depressing albums ever
This album is pure gold
True, it gives me the strangest feeling of mortal vulnerability, death and hopelessness, but in such a beautiful way.
I listen every fall/winter 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽
It’s right alongside Aeroplane Over the Sea
At first listen I remember loving this album. But when I realized that the deathbed is just a metaphor for a dying relationship, that killed it for me in a way. The songs are still beautiful but… I don‘t know. This overblown comparison makes me think, oh come on, it’s just the end of a relationship.
this album singlehandedly saved my life
i love this album so much. but i cant ever listen to it again. i know if i listen to it again i’ll just be a train wreck and sad.
Hospice dropped at a really rough time in my life, and it really helped me confront some things. I will always be immeasurably appreciative of it. To The Antlers: thank you for making an absolutely phenomenal album. To the NPR staff: thank you for sharing this again a decade later so it can reach a new audience.
I wasn't informed that I was gonna cry today
I first heard this album in 2010 when I was 13 and it has followed me my entire teenage/early adult life. What an amazing concept album
same!!! I’m 23 now, and I’ve wanted an antlers tattoo for 10 years. just waiting for the right time
novababy i’m 20 now but when i got an antlers tattoo when i was 18!! they were a band who stuck with me through my teenage years and i knew for sure that they had shaped a huge part of who i was so i never even second guessed getting a tattoo dedicated to them
Omg same!
They came back to DC for Hospice10th anniversary show 2 years ago. Tickets were all sold out & I even lost my wallet right before, no cash, bank accounts locked. Luckily, a stranger online passed me his ticket and agreed to let me reimburse later. I managed to witness this masterpiece in its entirety from the front row, hearing the audience around me breaking into tears in the dark. It is still the best concert to me until now.
Seen the same tour in Manchester, England.
The memory will stay with me forever. Breathtaking.
back in highschool i used to draw hospice's cover art everywhere! i haven't listened to the record in a while, it was my absolute favorite
Such a beautiful album. Still listening to it after all these years
0:15 - *Bear* (6:07)
6:17 - *Atrophy* (12:47)
13:25 - *Sylvia* (19:46)
Interesting how they played them in reverse album order. Thanks for the time stamps!
I honestly didn’t know that this existed until today and now I’m crying. Thanks NPR.
listen to hospice the whole way through to unlock a brand new mental illness: Super Depression
Sylvia does something to my soul whenever I listen to it, and I've heard every version online at this point. It's heavy, man. It's so good.
I haven't heard anything from The Antlers in awhile. I love their music!
I'm so happy to see that there are a lot of people that enjoy The Antlers and to hear that their lives have been impacted by the album Hospice.
I still listen to The Antlers a bunch. Hospice is the album I discovered them from. It was the first time I realized that there exists music that makes me feel less alone when I'm sad or depressed and it's beautiful to listen to all at once.
I would love to see The Antlers return to Tiny Desk with all the music and experience they've had since Hospice. There is beauty and passion in all their albums.
have never been so ready to cry
I've had 10:05 to 10:30 on loop. So powerful in his lyricism and his delivery. Wonderful album.
such a beautiful voice
the alarm at the beginning of Atrophy was perfect.
I wish I could be there and listen. So good!
I really love these synthesizer sounds
I've waited so long for a high quality re-upload of this Tiny Desk. What an amazing performance.
Kettering, no windows, putting the dog to sleep are my all time favorites. and i don't want love.
Oh this is some new calming music for me to keep digging.
Oh man I've been looking for this one forever! It was one of my favorites and I thought I had saved it in iTunes but could never find it.
Thank you for introducing me to so much amazing music during quarantine 🙏🏼
I have never been this early on a video. I need my life to go back to normal so that I can spend 12 hours on CZcams by choice not because I've been forced to.
I think this may be the new normal.
eternally jealous of anyone who saw them when they were still touring hospice
It was gooooodd. Saw them in a basement venue. No more than 100 ppl and Holly Miranda opened 😍😍
I did! Small place in NYC. Awesome.
Oh my! The first song metaphorically placed me in a clear state of mind standing at a large body of water pregnant thinking about the future 😳
The 2nd song reminds me of a poet written words not being understood as they are delivered after their departure from this world. He seemed to be so caught up in his thoughts at the end, I was thankful for the cymbal sound.
The 3rd one, I love that drum beat. Oh Silvia... his voice range at the end is fantastically painful. Whew!
This is the first time I've been exposed to this artist. Thanks guys. Stay safe during this pandemic. 💕🙏🏽✌🏽
please don’t ever take this down :(
that s a very lovely song ! the introduction just made me fly so high !!
I needed a good cry thanks. I love this band even though their music hurts me. Sometimes we need to emotionally reset and music like this is the best to do it with.
I deeply love this album.
This album is so great ❤️
i love how sad i am right now
I miss The Antlers
Anyone noticed the sound of ambulance around 7:25?
Shout out for the MicroKorg, I got one of those bad boys over a decade ago and it's still going strong!
They need to get I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME on Tiny Desk after this is all over.
I love this so much
Hospice is the best indie album ever made
He has such a beautiful voice , a very unique flavor to it.
I have never seen this i hope they play sylvia
okay i read the description nvm😆
One of the best Tiny Desks.
Seeing Hospice songs live is a whole new experience
heartwrenching
What a nice gift
Great emotional preformance, but with Sylvia you have to have the loud, painful chorus because the album version is just so gut wrenching and powerful
Amo demais! Das coisas boas que conheci por causa da depressão. Quando tive mal de depressão eu ouvi muita música, acho que uma parte de mim não morreu por causa da música. Dos artistas que mais me ajudaram a superar e a manter uma sanidade mais acessível, eles e Bon Iver são os mais acessados da lista. Como pode uma banda do outro lado do mundo salvar um cara aqui, não consigo entender. Deus é arte. Arte salva. Não é pra entender, só sentir.
One of the most depressing albums of all time...
Interesting story I want to put game
loved it❣️☝️
Pete is one of the loveliest humans alive on record and in person
Npr provides half of my music
Love you so much
I wish they had done the full ending of atrophy, such beautiful sad songs
I wonder why they did the songs backwards
Would love if you got Lady Lamb on!
Sooooo good
I wish they'd make more albums together
i shouldn’t be watching this video. i directly associate this album with some truly terrible stuff, and on top of it being an incredibly heartbreaking album on its own merits, i had to make the decision to not listen to it again for a long time. and yet here i am again, trapped inside silberman’s beautiful vocals. :,(
Nice
Nice to see LA Lakers small forward Jared Dudley pursuing his career in music.
Just kidding. Hospice top tier album.
👏
I found this going through my divorce. It personified my grief and sadness like nothing else ever could.
Any similar songs/artists?
😱😱😱
Falto french exit hubiese quedado de 10 en el set
Haitus Kaiyote need a Tiny Desk!
makes me proud that i have a microkorg😌
Based on Sylvia Plath. She killed herself by putting her head in the oven.
man those are some loud drums
☹️😴😴 music??????? 😤😞
Moody chick music. Ug.
i hope you're doing alright
Ho Spice is still one of my favorite albums and I always come back to it. Pure magic