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100Hospice sits squarely in this camp, a heartbreaking aural experience that hits us on a deeper level.
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There's a straightforward appeal to the album's dynamism and fatalism, but that appeal swells with each close listen.
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90Hospice succeeds by conveying deeply personal traumas as universally appreciable truths, until one man's lonely, painful catharsis transmogrifies into something panoramic and shared by all.
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90Brooklyn's latest greatest deliver heartbreaking concept album.
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This quintet of musicians are making a name for themselves and with Hospice, they have remarkably made one of 2009's best albums.
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85Hospice answers silliness with solemnity, jitters with nerve. Their band name simply describes their music: a delicately branching instrument of force.
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84Hospice accomplishes volumes by the addition of drumer Michael Lerner and multi-instrumentlist Darby Cicci, creating an expansively profound album addressing life's most transitory and fragile states. [Summer 2009, p.94]
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Silberman's compulsion to write these songs may have been cathartic for him, but listening to them is most certainly cathartic for all of us.
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Hospice is an album of white walls, long desolate passages, and sudden blitzkriegs of high emotional drama – it's not always comforting, but the players are hyper-attentive to the nuances of each note and lyric.
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80Best is "Sylvia", where Bon Iver's intimacy, Arcade Fire's ambition, Sigur Ros' other-worldly reach and Flaming Lips' psych experimentalism collide. [Dec 2009, p. 98]
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80A musical vigil primed to cut a path from bedside to festival stage. [Dec 2009, p. 111]
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80Somehow, the lighter Hospice gets, the heavier it hits.
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Hospice is a work of rare beauty and a watershed moment in The Antlers' career.
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80Hospice isn't uplifting or hopeful; it explores themes of dejection through delicate, beautiful sounds.
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80It's obvious Hospice is an album Silberman made for himself, one that we're just privileged to listen to and enjoy. So sit back, listen, and consider yourself lucky, punk.
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80Hospice is a fully-realized and fully-functional concept album.
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Hospice mixes the personal and fictional in a way that few indie albums outside releases from Arcade Fire and Neutral Milk Hotel tend to do. Granted, Antlers aren't in that league yet, but Hospice positions them as one of the more exciting young bands in indie rock today.
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70Hospice is packed with lofty choruses and extended instrumental passages (the alternately elegiac and tedious 'Atrophy'). But with emotional drama in abundance (mostly from vocalist Peter Silberman's fiery, tormented shouts), sonic indulgences like the astral guitar blasts on "Thirteen" offer genuine catharsis.
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It's a tidy package that's well-planned and executed, but with a few pop songs so well written, it's easy to want the band to shift directions and let the post-rock go by the wayside. [Sep 2009, p.100]
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As a breakup narrative, it's successful. As pop music, it's either too insular or simply unable to turn Silberman's own experience into something one would desire to revisit.
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60This soaring album defines emotional shoegazing. [Dec 2009, p. 101]
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