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The Antlers’ Pete Silberman: ‘Familiars’ “made me kind of insane”
Writing the band’s new album wasn’t plain sailing for frontman Pete Silberman.
The Antlers return this week with their new album ‘Familiars’, the band’s fifth record following 2011’s ‘Burst Apart’. Recorded, engineered and produced in their Brooklyn studio, it was and mixed by Chris Coady at DNA Downtown Studios.
This time around, frontman Pete Silberman decided to write and sing as two sides of the same person. What grew out of this was the idea of a Familiar. “I wanted these two characters to be a creation of the same person,” he explains, “as if they are a manifestation of different qualities within one person’s psyche.”
But it also had a negative impact on his mental well-being. “It made the record gel but it also made me kind of insane, because in order for me to write these kind of songs – and this goes for a lot of Antlers songs – there’s a degree of living as these characters and it definitely fostered this duality in my own head.
“But I don’t think it’s that an unusual thing: a lot of us have these different ideas of who we are and we see ourselves as different people in different situations - like people who get out of control when they’re fucked up: ‘Oh that’s the werewolf version of me!’”
Read the full interview in the new, free DIY Weekly, available to read online, or download for iPhone, iPad or Android from Monday 16th June.
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