Hospice is the critically acclaimed third studio album by American indie rock group The Antlers, and their first concept album. It was initially self-distributed by the band in March 2009, and was eventually remastered and re-released once they signed to Frenchkiss Records in August. Vocalist Peter Silberman wrote the album after over 2 years of social isolation in Brooklyn, New York. The album tells an explicit story (in first and second person narrative) of an emotionally abusive relationship, told through the complex framing metaphor of a man meeting a bone cancer patient in the Sloan Kettering Cancer Ward where he Read more on Last.fm.
