There’s a thread of trauma running through most of The Antlers’ albums, and their latest is no exception. Yet while the band’s earlier work, particularly 2009’s Hospice and 2011’s Burst Apart, explored the psychological toll of distress on an individual level, Blight takes a more global approach. Singer, guitarist, and songwriter Peter Silberman here mourns the degradation of the natural world through waste, pollution, and sheer apathy. There are plenty of ways that theme could go wrong, but Silberman manages not to sound doctrinaire or heavy-handed on these nine songs, even as he quietly excoriates a culture of convenience that has chosen to overlook the consequences of next-day delivery and cheap mass-production. Mostly, he sounds…

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