History Music / Hospice

* IllGirl: Who the narrator falls in love with.

''Hospice'' is the third studio album by Brooklyn indie band Music/TheAntlers with Sharon Van Etten making a guest appearance on vocals. It is the first ConceptAlbum attempted by the band, as well as the first album released as a full group rather than frontman Peter Silberman's project. It was originally released in March of 2009, although demand was so great that it was officially reissued in August of that year.

* BastardGirlfriend: Averted. The metaphor of the cancer patient as an emotional abuser [[UnsexySadist is not romanticized.]]

-->--'''"Kettering"'''

''When they told me that there was no saving you.''\\

-->-'''"Kettering"'''

* ShortTitleLongElaborateSubtitle: It doesn't appear on the album's back cover, but the liner notes show that all of the songs do have alternate titles which serve to describe the song a little more:
** "Prologue": "[[TitleTrack Hospice]]"
** "Kettering": "Bedside Manner"
** "Sylvia": "Sliding Curtains Shining Children's Heads"
** "Atrohpy": "Rings Ill-Fitting"

** "Thirteen": "Sylvia Speaks"

** "Shiva": "Portacaths Switched"
** "Wake": "Letting People In"
** "Epilogue": "Sylvia Alive In Nightmares"

Widely considered the band's masterpiece, ''Hospice'' went on to receive critical acclaim upon release, praising the lyrics, instrumentation, and the album's ability to, in the words of Pitchfork, "[[TearJerker emotionally destroy listeners]]."

[[caption-width-right:325:''"I didn't believe them when they told me that there was no saving you."'']]

''You made me sleep and uneven, and I didn't believe them''\\

--'''"Kettering"'''

Widely considered the band's masterpiece, ''Hospice'' went on to receive critical acclaim upon release, praising the lyrics, instrumentation and the album's ability to [[TearJerker emotionally destroy listeners]]. Coming from the tail-end of the decade, ''Hospice'' is considered one of the greatest of the [[TurnOfTheMillennium 2000s]] and, for some, of all time, citing it as the ''Music/InTheAeroplaneOverTheSea'' of today.

** Several lyrics call back to lines from "Sylvia, An Introduction", a song from an EP The Antlers released the year before ''Hospice''. "Your face is up against mine and I'm too terrified to speak," "Dig me out from under our house," and "get your head out of the oven" from "Epilogue", "Thirteen", and "Sylvia" respectively all echo lyrics from "Sylvia, An Introduction". The song also largely shares a melody with "Epilogue".

* ShoutOut: Of the tragic variety. "Sylvia" and "Sylvia, An Introduction" both mention the titular character putting her head in an oven, a reference to Creator/SylviaPlath's famous suicide.

[[caption-width-right:325:''"[[ArcWords You're screaming and cursing...]]"'']]

* AllThereInTheManual: the liner notes for "Prologue," an instrumental, outline a bit more backstory to the patients condition and its psychological effects, and turns a couple of lyrics in later tracks into a MeaningfulEcho. Of course, you'd only get this if you purchased the physical version (or looked up the lyrics on the Antler's website)
* [[AntiLoveSong Anti Love Album]]
* ArcWords: "You're screaming and cursing."
* BastardGirlfriend: Subverted. The metaphor of the cancer patient as an emotional abuser [[UnsexySadist is not romanticized.]]

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''Don't ever let anyone tell you you deserve that''
* CallForward: The melody line for the final lines of "Atrophy" is used again for the final lines of "Wake".
* ConceptAlbum

* FaceDeathWithDignity: Subverted in the most gutturally heartbreaking manner. "Thirteen" is told from the perspective of the patient as they knowingly near death, and they're begging the worker to save them.
* FadingIntoTheNextSong

* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted in "Bear". "The bear" inside the dying wife's "stomach" heavily implies that she's pregnant. The singer's comments imply they decided an abortion would be best because of their unhealthy relationship.
-->''We'll put an end to him''\\
''We'll make all the right appointments''\\
''No one ever has to know''\\
''Well we're not scared of making caves''\\
''Or finding food for him to eat''\\
''We're terrified of one another''\\
''And terrified of what that means''

* LoveNostalgiaSong: Sort of subverted with "Kettering", which is about the singer wishing he hadn't fallen in love with someone in the first place.

* RockMeAmadeus: The first few bars of "Bear" are are taken almost exactly from "Twelve Variation on 'Ah vous dirai-je, Maman'" by Mozart (aka, "Twinkle Twinkly Little Star").

''Close the doors and keep them out''

* BastardGirlfriend: The metaphor implies that this is what the cancer patient represents.

''Hospice'' is the third studio album by Brooklyn indie band Music/TheAntlers with Sharon Van Etten making a guest appearance on vocals. It is the first ConceptAlbum attempted by the band, as well as the first album released as a full group rather than frontman Peter Silberman's project. It was originally released in March of 2009, although demand was so great that it was officially reissued in August of that year. The album's story tells of the doomed relationship between a hospital worker and a terminal cancer patient. The disease has left the patient in a deranged state and prone to violent mood swings, who she takes out any frustrations on the hospital worker who, despite the abuse, loves and supports her until her inevitable death. [[WordOfGod According to Silberman]], this is all a metaphor for an emotionally abusive relationship, which autobiographical to at least some extent.

* ArcWords: "You're screaming and cursing"

* DownerEnding: The patient's death, and the worker being unable to get over her.

''Close the doors and keep them out''

''Hospice'' is the third studio album by Brooklyn indie band Music/TheAntlers with Sharon Van Etten making a guest appearance on vocals. It is the first ConceptAlbum attempted by the band, as well as the first album released as a full group rather than frontman Peter Silberman's project. It was originally released in March of 2009, although demand was so great that it was officially reissued in August of that year. The album's story tells of the doomed relationship between a hospital worker and a terminal cancer patient. The disease has left the patient in a deranged state and prone to violent mood swings, who she takes out any frustrations on the hospital worker who, despite the abuse, loves and supports her until her inevitable death. [[WordOfGod According to Silberman]], this is all a metaphor for an emotionally abusive relationship, which may or may not be autobiographical.

* NonAppearingTitle: "Kettering" and "Atrophy".

'''''Hospice''''' is the third studio album by Brooklyn indie band Music/TheAntlers with Sharon Van Etten making a guest appearance on vocals. It is the first ConceptAlbum attempted by the band, as well as the first album released as a full group rather than frontman Peter Silberman's project. It was originally released in March of 2009, although demand was so great that it was officially reissued in August of that year. The album's story tells of the doomed relationship between a hospital worker and a terminal cancer patient. The disease has left the patient in a deranged state and prone to violent mood swings, who she takes out any frustrations on the hospital worker who, despite the abuse, loves and supports her until her inevitable death. [[WordOfGod According to Silberman]], this is all a metaphor for an emotionally abusive relationship, which may or may not be autobiographical.

Widely considered the band's MagnumOpus, ''Hospice'' went on to receive critical acclaim upon release, praising the lyrics, instrumentation and the album's ability to [[TearJerker emotionally destroy listeners]]. Coming from the tail-end of the decade, ''Hospice'' is considered one of the greatest of the [[TurnOfTheMillennium 2000s]] and, for some, of all time, citing it as the ''Music/InTheAeroplaneOverTheSea'' of today.

* IllGirl: Who the narrator falls in love with

* NonAppearingTitle: "Kettering" and "Atrophy"

!!''Let's open up those tropes'':

''Hospice'' is the third studio album by Brooklyn indie band Music/TheAntlers with Sharon Van Etten making a guest appearance on vocals. It is the first ConceptAlbum attempted by the band, as well as the first album released as a full group rather than frontman Peter Silberman's project. It was originally released in March of 2009, although demand was so great that it was officially reissued in August of that year. The album's story tells of the doomed relationship between a hospital worker and a terminal cancer patient. The disease has left the patient in a deranged state and prone to violent mood swings, who she takes out any frustrations on the hospital worker who, despite the abuse, loves and supports her until her inevitable death. [[WordOfGod According to Silberman]], this is all a metaphor for an emotionally abusive relationship, which may or may not be autobiographical.

** However, if you take the album's metaphorical meaning, this trope is played straight as the girl in question is [[BastardGirlfriend anything but good]].

->''We'll put an end to him / We'll make all the right appointments / No one ever has to know
Well we're not scared of making caves / Or finding food for him to eat / We're terrified of one another / And terrified of what that means''

->''But we'll make only quick decisions and you'll just keep me in the waiting room,''\\

->''Daddy was an asshole, he fucked you up''
* RockMeAmadeus: The first few bars of "Bear" are are taken almost exactly from "Twelve Variation on 'Ah vous dirai-je, Maman'" by Mozart (aka, "Twinkle Twinkly Little Star").