Stunningly emotional.

Short on singles, but a profoundly moving and beautiful album with a capital "A." Taken as a set, Hospice is a moving and delicate piece of art. Album of the year so far.

First album in months that i find myself repeating over and over again.

Best album since Radiohead s In Rainbows!

This is one of the best albums I have ever heard.. Brings me to tears. What a great band.

Best album of 2009.

Easily the best album of 2009 thus far.

Absolutely stunning album! Better than anything I've heard in years..... a cinch for album of 2009. What a talented band!!!

Currently halfway through this album, and I don't need to finish it to already know 10/10 passion and feeling went straight into this album, followed up with a great sound.

I get shivers every time I listen to this album. It is full of emotions, and worth a listen.

Heartbreaking. Some of the best lyrics I've heard in a while and one of the best albums I've heard this year. Highlights are Atrophy, Bear, Thirteen and Shiva. Gets better every time you listen to it, although first impressions aren't too bad, either.

I can count on my fingers the number of records I can sit down and listen to all the way through repeatedly. Hospice is one of them. Easily my favorite album of 2009. 10 is deserved.

Great album, one of the years best. Full of emotion, raw and powerful. Fantastic for a debut and highly recommended.

Hands down, favorite album of the decade. No joke. Unbelievably powerful.

We've all been there - illness, mortality, the hospital. Antlers provides an artful portrait.

I keep listening to this on my ipod, over and over. Its haunting.

One of the most powerful and tragic albums I have ever heard, it has this broad scope of melancholy emotions that just brings you to your knees. I think this has to be one of best albums of this decade.

On first listen I was only somewhat impressed with album. The real power is in the emotional delivery of the vocals and the weighty lyrics. Death, sickness and loss never felt so beautiful and cathartic. This is probably one of my favorites for the year and certainly has the emotional depth that is missing in most music today.

Nothing this year comes close to being as powerful as Hospice. Best disc of the year.

It's quite a feat to make music that goes from subdued to grandiose without making it sound pretentious. this album is able to walk that line perfectly, drawing a surprisingly wide range of emotions out of the listener. if you like music of this genre, this is definitely one of the top albums of 2009.

I've been listening to this for a couple of weeks now and it is very good, particularly when the singer lets fly. Some of the more quiescent moments could have been edited down, but that's quibbling.

Breathtaking, touching yet not overdone at all. The singer makes this record one that many can empathise with.

Yup, definitely one of the highlights of 2009.

This album really reaches in and delivers a personal experience that you will be willing to repeat. First listened to it while trying to sleep and kept listening for a whole week. The songs have this calm flow-like feeling so that you don't bother which track you're at while listening to the entire album and keepsyou wondering. My fav. album of 2009 til now.

The union of his clearly and calm voice with the melodies and the history behind the lyrics just gets through all my senses!! After hearing 5 times in a road this album i love it more every time... simply one of this years best albums!!

Amazing.

This is a fantastic album. In a lot of ways it reminds me of Black Sheep Boy (or at least they both impacted me in a similar way). Right now I would say Dragonslayer is my album of the year, but this is easily second.

Where the hell did this band come from? Some of the best songs Ive listened to in years.

Absolutely stunning. So many layers of heartbreak, rendered beautifully and delicately.

A haunting, emotionally draining masterpiece. If 2009 is going to see a better album than Hospice, it had better hurry.

Best album of 2009.

Sad, touching, beautiful, and occasionally rocking. The best album I've heard this year.

Listen to this CD with headphones in the dark. You won't be sorry. It's not a CD that can be sampled or listened to carelessly. It requires a bit of commitment, but the payoff is there.

Incredibly moving. If you really listen to the thing front to back you'd have to have a heart of stone not to well up a bit. The music compliments the words perfectly. A deeply inspired work of art.

I heard about The Antlers, because a review had said they were similar to Arcade Fire, so I had to check them out. Turns out they have completely different styles, both of which I love. This album is absolutely stunning, and my favourite track has to be Kettering.

basically it goes like this Song 1... Prologue... is the prologue Song 2... Kettering... girl is in hospital because a guy beat her up with a bone... she's really sad and quiet but her nurse decides to take care of her because its his job Song 3... Atrophy... he does surgery to take the bullets out of her body and puts them inside of himself... it makes him so sad that he gives her "a trophy" for making him so sad... Song 4... Bear... while he is performing surgery he finds out that there is actually a live bear inside her stomach as well, he gets into an argument with the bear about whether they're too old or not old at all Thirteen... while he is doing surgery there is a little woman inside where the bear was and it sings a song to him asking to pull her out also Two... I dunno what this song is about really but i think he's talking about her past and then the doctor tells him he has to stop trying to help her because there is way too much **** inside her... the bear has grown angry and it breaks all the light bulbs and glass rains down from the ceiling... Shiva... she takes off a ring and puts it on his finger and it turns him into Shiva, from the Final Fantasy series, but as he's transforming the "sensation is shivers" because he's ice elemental and it's real cold Wake... spoiler alert... he wakes up and it was all a dream... but then a helicopter comes outside his window and she's inside of it but he ties the rope around his neck... and dies Epilogue... they both die and they are buried together but they are still alive and she is screaming so much that he can't sleep… Expand