Peter Silberman's indie folk rock project The Antlers have announced a brand new album. Blight – the followup to 2021's Green to Gold – is out October 10 via Transgressive Records. Produced by Silberman himself almost entirely at his home studio in upstate New York, the record was completed in Bearsville, NY with additional engineering from Pete Caigan.

The album news comes with first single "Carnage", which you can check out below:

“‘Carnage’ is a song about a kind of violence we rarely acknowledge — violence not born of cruelty, but of convenience,” Silberman says of the new song. “Innocent creatures are swept up in the path of destruction as their world collides with ours, and we barely notice.”

The album as a whole promises to host songs inspired by "passively destructive tendencies – absentminded pollution, unwitting wastefulness, and the inadvertent devastation of the natural world."

Going deeper, Siberman says:

"So much of the record was conceived while walking these massive fields. I felt like I was wandering around an abandoned planet ... The consequences of accelerating technology and environmental neglect feel imminent; that sense of urgency made me want to speak more candidly. The present-day specifics are so unsettling, and tomorrow’s possibilities are so surreal... there’s no need to mince words."

As has been customary on recent Antlers projects, Silberman sings and performs nearly all the instrumentation, with Michael Lehrer providing drums and percussion.

The album comes in a special edition packaged with an EP of singles rom 2022-2023, such as "I Was Not There" and "Rains".

Blight is out Octobe 10. Preorder here. Full tracklist:

1. Consider the Source 
2. Pour 
3. Carnage 
4. Blight
5. Something in the Air 
6. Deactivate 
7. Calamity
8. A Great Flood 
9. They Lost All of Us 

Currently, the band has only a single show on the books, for October 22 at NYC's Le Poisson Rouge. Tickets can be found on their website.