The first thing people think about when they think about Peter Silberman is grief. Or more specifically, Hospice, the Antlers’ 2009 breakthrough album about a doomed romance between a hospice worker and a terminal cancer patient that turned emotional devastation into an indie touchstone and earned its place on every list of “records that will absolutely ruin your day.” Fair enough. It’s a heavy association. But it’s also a frozen one—like assuming someone still lives in the same apartment they had at age 23. While fans might be stuck in that moment, Silberman is not, despite the fact that people still approach him and tell him their own stories of death, loss, and difficult relationships.

He’s spent the intervening years since doing what thinking people tend to do: changing. Over the past decade, other things have been on his mind besides the death of a relationship. More universal ones. The most recent Antlers album, 2025’s Blight, wrestles with the environment, excess, erosion, and the idea that transformation isn’t always visible. It’s about damage but also about responsibility and about paying attention.