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- Date Released: June 23, 2009
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Commercial Alternative
- Label: French Kiss Records / The Orchard
A billowing, sweeping relationship post-mortem
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From the title alone, it's easy to guess how Hospice will end. And while Antlers singer/songwriter Peter Silberman's relationship post-mortem is, indeed, as depressing as it sounds, it builds a mythology of borrowed symbols and figures that is both haunting and compelling. Like Bon Iver's For Emma, Forever Ago, Hospice obsesses over the end of a suffocating relationship; the songs are freighted with lengthy outros that blur the distinction between the beginning of one composition and the start of the next. Instead, song sections are defined by subtle shifts and big volume changes: "Sylvia" begins so softly you can hear saliva smacking between his parched lips, but it gradually expands to become a blizzard of horns and piano. "Bear," with its "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" music box introduction and one of the album's only hummable refrains, demonstrates that Silberman can craft conventional songs without falling back on cliché. "Two," is little more than a list of disappointments: "I didn't mind you blaming me for your mistakes," he sings in a falsetto just slightly louder than his guitar. There's no chorus here to help make sense of the relationship, just pauses between the verses.
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| 01. |  |
Prologue |
2:34 |
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| 02. | |
Kettering |
5:11 |
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| 03. | |
Sylvia |
5:27 |
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| 04. | |
Atrophy |
7:40 |
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| 05. | |
Bear |
3:54 |
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| 06. | |
Thirteen |
3:12 |
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| 07. | |
Two |
5:56 |
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| 08. | |
Shiva |
3:46 |
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| 09. | |
Wake |
8:44 |
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| 10. | |
Epilogue |
5:29 |
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10 Total Tracks, 51:53 Total Length
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