Seizure Chicken Interviews The Antlers (video)

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When The Antlers’ Hospice first reached us at SC I gave it my usual cursory listen while typing away at my desk at work and as the album developed my typing slowed… eventually coming to a dead halt.  And then the second tune started.  I knew we had something special here.  The boys from Brooklyn dominated the coop for a while and Hospice has quickly risen to the absolute top of my Album of Twenty-Aught-Nine List.  When my good friend Madano informed me that they’d be performing at the Forward Music Festival in Madison, WI on Saturday, September 20 I started playing eenie-meenie-miney-mo between my kidneys to determine which one to sell so that I could make the show. Needless to say, I was delighted when I learned I wouldn’t have to eBay my My Buddy doll collection as SC had done the unthinkable: scored an interview with The Antlers.

After seeing Peter, Darby and Michael perform the tracks at the High Noon Saloon on Saturday afternoon I was absolutely stupefied.  When the interview came around I was absolutely terrified that I’d make a blubbering idiot of myself in front of these three guys who I had come to respect and even honor over the past few months.  The conversation that ensued was truly enlightening—ranging from the conception of the album and the recording process (which, contrary to popular belief on the interweb, didn’t involve Peter being chained to a guitar alone for 18 months) to the immense task of taking an album as flawlessly constructed as Hospice to the stage and their plans for the future, this interview was absolutely eye-opening.  A little insight into these great musical minds is priceless; I got a good deal more out of the interview than just a little bit.  And now, here’s your chance!  Check out the video above and learn a little more about this year’s top album, Hospice, and the phenomenal dudes who created it: The Antlers.