After the Jump Band Profile: The Antlers (Exclusive EP Premiere!)

Who: The Antlers
Location: Brooklyn, NY
ATJ Slot: North 6th Stage, 3:30pm

I've done so much coverage of The Antlers that I knew I had to come up with something different if I was going to be promoting their appearance at After the Jump. I sat down with Peter to think about it and we pondered doing a new interview and a few other options until we landed on the perfect idea. He would release an EP, exclusively through my website! Enter New York Hospitals, a three song EP featuring two cover songs and a brand new Antlers track that will introduce us to The Antlers new record Hospice! I've only gotten to listen once so I'll save any individual commentary for a bit later, but for now feel free to download the new tracks individually or as a ZIP file below. That up top is the cover art for the EP and here are the line notes from Peter's own hand...

"The New York Hospitals EP came about rather unexpectedly. Two covers from New York-ish bands from around 1999 surround an original, entitled "Sylvia (An Introduction)", intended to introduce the focus of the soon to be completed Hospice LP.

Sharon Van Etten contributed vocals to "Nothing Matters When We're Dancing" and "Tears Are In Your Eyes", and Michael Lerner unknowingly drummed on the same tracks (I hijacked a part he recorded for Hospice). It was recorded in Watcher's Woods in Brooklyn in 2008. The cover is the manipulation of a picture that can be found here."

The Antlers - "Nothing Matters When We're Dancing" (Magnetic Fields cover)
The Antlers - "Sylvia (An Introduction)"
The Antlers - "Tears Are In Your Eyes" (Yo La Tengo cover)
New York Hospital EP
Lyrics for "Sylvia (An Introduction)"