Antler Dance

{{short description|1994 album by Boiled in Lead}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Antler Dance | type = studio | artist = Boiled in Lead | cover = Boiled_in_Lead_-_Antler_Dance.jpg | alt = | released = 1994 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Celtic rock/Celtic punk, folk punk, gypsy punk | length = 58:20 | label = Omnium Records | producer = | prev_title = Orb | prev_year = 1990 | next_title = Songs from The Gypsy | next_year = 1995 }}

{{Music ratings | rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000177503|tab=review |label="Boiled in Lead: Antler Dance" |first= Richard |last= Foss |accessdate=20 May 2015}}</ref> | rev2 = ''Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' | rev2Score = {{rating|3|4}}<ref name="guinness">{{cite encyclopedia | editor-last = Larkin | editor-first = Colin | title = Boiled in Lead | encyclopedia = The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music | volume = 5 | pages = 727–728 | publisher = Guinness Publishing | location = Middlesex, England | date = 1995}}</ref> | rev3 = ''MusicHound Folk'' | rev3Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="MusicHound">{{cite book|first= Neal |last= Walters |first2= Brian |last2= Mansfield |authorlink2= Brian Mansfield|first3= Tim |last3= Walters |year= 1998 | pages = 75 |publisher= Visible Ink Press |title= MusicHound Folk: The Essential Album Guide |isbn= 1-57859-037-X}}</ref> | rev4 = ''Alternative Press'' | rev4Score = (positive)<ref>{{Citation | last = Mahan | first = Michael C. | title = Boiled in Lead: Antler Dance | magazine = Alternative Press | date = May 1995 }}</ref> }}

'''''Antler Dance''''' is the fourth album by Minneapolis folk punk band Boiled in Lead. It was the band's first recording with vocalist/guitarist Adam Stemple, who replaced Todd Menton after his departure in 1992. Founding bassist Drew Miller has called this personnel change the most significant shift in the band's history.<ref name=iwm>{{cite web|last=Kirman|first=Paula E.|title=Boiled In Lead|url= http://www.insideworldmusic.com/library/weekly/aa072498.htm |work=Inside World Music|accessdate=4 June 2015|date=24 July 1998}}</ref> Fiddler Josef Kessler also replaced the departed David Stenshoel. Stemple's addition to the band led to a heavier, more heavy metal-influenced sound,<ref name="MusicHound" /> as well as a strengthening of the band's ties to the science fiction and fantasy community.<ref name="allmusic">{{AllMusic | class= artist| id= boiled-in-lead-mn0000081713| tab= biography| first= Steven| last= McDonald| accessdate= June 2, 2015}}</ref> Two songs on ''Antler Dance'' were co-written by fantasy novelist and Stemple's Cats Laughing bandmate Steven Brust, and "Robin's Complaint" was written by Stemple's mother, novelist Jane Yolen. The album also includes covers of Boney M.'s "Rasputin" and Bruce Springsteen's "State Trooper", originally from his album ''Nebraska''.

==Track listing== {{Track listing

| extra_column = Composer | title1 = Newry Highwayman | extra1 = Traditional | length1 = 2:49 | title2 = Pontiaka | extra2 = Josef Kessler/Traditional | length2 = 3:58 | title3 = Walk Through the Door | extra3 = Steven Brust/Adam Stemple | length3 = 3:39 | title4 = Sugarfoot Congress | extra4 = Traditional | length4 = 4:19 | title5 = Drowning | extra5 = Drew Miller | length5 = 3:54 | title6 = Robin's Complaint | extra6 = Jane Yolen/Robin Anders/Andrew Miller | length6 = 2:42 | title7 = Bring It Round | extra7 = | length7 = 3:21 | title8 = Hook 'Em Cow | extra8 = Steven Brust/Boiled in Lead/Drew Miller/Traditional (This track was released as a single but it did not chart) | length8 = 3:02 | title9 = Rasputin | extra9 = Frank Farian/Fred Jay/Traditional | length9 = 4:42 | title10 = Neda Voda | extra10 = Traditional | length10 = 5:42 | title11 = Nasrudin | extra11 = Traditional | length11 = 8:42 | title12 = State Trooper | extra12 = Bruce Springsteen | length12 = 11:25 }}

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Category:1994 albums Category:Boiled in Lead albums