Artist: The Antlers Album: Familiars Genre: Ambient Rock Label: Anti- When a band takes its name from a Microphones song, it’s fair game to expect hopeless toiling in love metaphors, jumpy explorative arrangements, and, above all, musical cataracts in the form of depression. Phil Elverum’s “Antlers,” a lo-fi folk recording that fades out with a […]
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REVIEW: The Antlers – ‘Familiars’
June 19th, 2014 
Nina Corcoran 
Posted in Features, News, Reviews 
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