The Antlers immense and wildly popular debut album, Hospice, finally receives a proper widespread release through French Kiss. The album is a skyscraping blend of the ambient, passionate and anthemic.
 
It sits somewhere between Antony Hegarty vocally, Bon Iver in the quiet moments and a schizophrenic Radiohead. Hospice resonates on debilitating sonic and lyrical levels, from the hypnotic harp and tension-ratcheting build of Two to the sing-or-sink choruses of Bear and the speaker-rattling peaks of Sylvia,. however it's Kettering that is the real show stopper as it's drenched in atmosphere and sorrow - one of the most beautiful and moving tracks in years.