[photo by Amanda Hatfield]
In our many posts about The Antlers, we have never spoken about the band’s technical prowess. The new album, Burst Apart, was produced by the band, but the lion’s share of the studio and tech work was done by keyboardist Darby Cicci. At Wellmont Theatre on Monday night, it was a question in my mind as to whether the band’s sound could fill such a cavernous theatre, but from the very outset The Antlers did just that. As they opened with perhaps the most aggressive song from Burst Apart “Parentheses”, Michael Lerner’s well-mic’d bass drum and the strong dual guitar work of Peter Silberman and Tim Mislock produced a wall of sound, but it was Darby’s keys and effects that provided both the bottom end and the depth to the booming sound. The set continued in the same vein, with six new songs of the seven played, supplemented by an emotional version of “Atrophy” from Hospice. The Antlers return to the NYC area on December 10, with a newly announced date at Webster Hall.
We recorded this set in the same manner and location as the EITS set, and the sound quality is equally rich. Enjoy!
Stream “I Don’t Want Love”:
[audio:http://www.nyctaper.com/A3398Antlers3200/03.%20I%20Don%27t%20Want%20Love.mp3]
This Recording is now available to Download in FLAC and MP3 at Archive.org [HERE].
The Antlers
2011-10-03
Wellmont Theatre
Montclair, NJ USA
Four-Track Digital Master Recording
Recorded from Front Center of Balcony Rail
Schoeps MK-41 > PSP2 + DPA 4021’s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2x 24bit 48kHz wav files > Soundforge (level adjustments, mixdown, set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > Flac Frontend (level 7, align sector boundaries) > flac
Recorded and Produced by
nyctaper and hi and lo
2011-10-06
Setlist:
[Total Time 46:57]
01 Parentheses
02 No Widows
03 I Don’t Want Love
04 Atrophy
05 Rolled Together
06 Hounds
07 Putting The Dog To Sleep
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Awesome job guys! All your recording are really excellent – enjoying Wilco, The Antlers, & Explosions in the Sky of late, as well as a bunch of other performances in the past. Excellent work & always good quality! Thanks for doing it & providing for us to enjoy free! Cheers!