Hospice Reviews

The Antlers - Hospice
Allow me to forge a fair warning: The Antlers’ Hospice is not an easy record to sit through. With the right focus, in the right mindset, this album is as powerful on the soul as climbing a mountain is on the body. This album will crush you if you don’t know what to expect. Hospice is at once the simplest and most immense album of the year. Its music is made of small melodies,...
The Antlers at Cafe Bourbon
  Depending on their subject matter, concept albums have the potential to alienate listeners. Even the term “concept album” sounds a bit pretentious. But the truly great ones transcend story-line, using the thematic material to communicate ideas, questions, truths, emotions—or all of the above—common to the human experience. In other words, you don’t need to be...
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