What an album! If you like the Antlers has ever delivered an absolute masterpiece (Hospice), you will have to compete as a band always remember. Unless you still make another great album that the tail is not inferior but is completely different. Also Familiars is a quiet, atmospheric album with outbreaks like Hospice. Nevertheless, the basic concept is a completely different. Familiars sets over long distances on wind and fills his songs more and more of. Just one song remains less than five minutes and even that only slightly. The songs are not hits, are not suited for compact and singles are not even half as expressive as a whole by itself. Familiars is a work where every song has its place. The opener and simultaneously advance song "Palace" creates a beautiful, slightly sad atmosphere of piano and wind instruments, the powerfully breaks the end, "Director" lets the rare guitar waft through his outro, the nearly eight-minute "Revisited" puts the singing, caressed by gentle piano and guitars to the fore, but then leaves again room for a two-minute guitar playing. This free float of songs without being forced into classic song pattern can Familiars look very authentic. On this album is not overproduced, the set of instruments is considered and coherent and singer Peter Silbermann makes the songs a lot of space to unfold. Only the somewhat stiff "Doppelganger" is lost in his seven minutes of play a little bit, will at no climax, making it the second track a little bulky. However, if you embarking on the album as a whole finder is also to "Doppelganger" favor. All in all an exceptional album.
