Good Music, And It's Free! And There's A Video!

Everyone likes free music, right? Free music is awesome. Free music is even better when its legal. Free music is even even better when it's from The Antlers. It's even even even better when it comes with a video.

The Antlers, whom I've written about before, put a (kinda) new EP, New York Hospitals, plus the music video for "Sylvia" off their full-length Hospice, up for free on their website. They're even nice enough to share the html code for the download tool, so here it is below as well.

The music video is in a style similar to The Antler's others. Its a sort of pseudo-colonial setting, loaded with sepia toning and slow motion. It's confusing given that Hospice is a concept album set in a modern hospital. But whatever, I guess you don't win indie cred with videos that play out a concept album's story. It's a cool looking video regardless.

The EP features an understated electronic remix of "Sylvia." The album version (also used in the video) is grand and climactic, and I like it a lot more than this version, but the EP version is a nice change of pace.

The other song, "Nothing Matters When We're Dancing," is a Magnetic Fields cover. In typical Antler fashion, they take the original song and make it less happy, slower and give it some soul. Not complaining, but I'd really like to see if The Antlers can make a happy song. Hear me, Antlers? Happy. Try it.

Anyway, download it. It's free! And get into The Antlers. I guarantee you'll like 'em. If not, at least you can throw the name around for indie cred.

Ain't no cred like indie cred, as they say (by they I mean me).