The Antlers

TRANSGRESSIVE. CD/DL/LP Sixth album from elusive New Yorkers.

It’s been tough for Antlers leader Peter Silberman since 2014’s Familiars. First, a hearing condition forced him to flee noisy Brooklyn. Then, following his quiet 2017 solo album Impermanence, vocal cord surgery meant he had to learn to sing again. Book-ended by instrumentals (the closing Equinox almost slips into Cyndi Lauper’s Time After Time), Green To Gold finds Silberman in unsurprisingly ruminative mood. Influenced by his new hobby of meditation, the results (similar to his group’s 2009 album Hospice or Is A Woman-era Lambchop), take a little time to unfurl their charms, but it’s time well spent. For all that Wheels Roll Home evokes Coldplay’s Fix You, Silberman takes an intimate turn on Solstice and the languid It Is What It Is adds late-night saxophone. There’s real beauty here and Silberman marries eventual accessibility with gentle boundary-pushing to create his own, thoughtful world.