“It’s hard to be human/Only death can set you free,” singer/songwriter Eric Bachmann croons on “Human,” the first song on the excellent new album from Archers of Loaf, a group most folks stopped thinking about when Bill Clinton left office. It’s the sound of a middle-aged dad dealing with pandemic mortality, the horrors of post-Trump reality and a realization that the complaints of his youth weren’t all that serious. As he puts it on the shuddering “In the Surface Noise”: “What’s more for...
- 10/20/2022
- by Joe Gross
- Rollingstone.com
In their own not-at-all-quiet way, Archers of Loaf were one of the best bands of the Nineties. They made a tuneful ruckus: craggy riffs, croaked vocals, and hooks you didn’t know were there till the 10th listen, all in service of songs as heartfelt and sticky as those of acts many times their size. The North Carolina quartet’s output included four good-to-great albums, a killer Ep and a handful of immortal singles, and though they built a cult of fans and opened for Weezer, the Archers never got...
- 2/24/2020
- by Christian Hoard
- Rollingstone.com
North Carolina indie rock veterans Archers of Loaf shared a mysterious new teaser that could hint at their first new music in 22 years.
On YouTube, the band posted a 40-second clip that features footage of Archers of Loaf performing on stage mixed with audio of simmering guitars that build in a way that suggest they might be part of the intro to a new song. Just before the clip ends, a light cymbal tap adds to the building tension right before the audio comes to a halt with a kick of feedback.
On YouTube, the band posted a 40-second clip that features footage of Archers of Loaf performing on stage mixed with audio of simmering guitars that build in a way that suggest they might be part of the intro to a new song. Just before the clip ends, a light cymbal tap adds to the building tension right before the audio comes to a halt with a kick of feedback.
- 11/25/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
With all the (justified) excitement over the Archers Of Loaf reunion tour, it’d be a shame to forget that Archers frontman Eric Bachmann has been making outstanding music since that band broke up, primarily with his makeshift outfit Crooked Fingers. Breaks In The Armor, Crooked Fingers’ sixth LP, even contains a song that sounds a little Archers-y: “Bad Blood” kicks off with a discordant guitar run that could easily be a leftover from Vee Vee before settling into what’s been Bachmann’s preferred musical mode for the past decade, mixing gruff, saloon-ready rock with a few dollops of ...
- 10/11/2011
- avclub.com
“There’s a chance it might get weird, yeah it’s a possibility.” That’s Eric Bachmann singing on the first song on the first side of Archers of Loaf’s first album, Icky Mettle. Nearly two decades after they were committed to tape, those lines have proved supremely prescient, neatly summing up the North Carolina indie band’s career—or lack thereof. With only a few singles under their collective belt, the quartet signed with Alias Records in 1994, then spent the ensuing five years working, writing and touring as hard as any of their peers. When they broke up in 1999, however, they had...
- 8/3/2011
- Pastemagazine.com
“Silverlake” is a non-album track from the sessions that became 2010’s Drawing Down the Moon. The first round of recording was done with the late Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse. The two-song single includes “Silverlake” and “Silverlake (demo).” The demo version of the track was recorded with Linkous and Scott Minor in Knoxville, Tn. “Silverlake” is a re-recording of that session, with some original tracks and some new, that the band did with Eric Bachmann at Echo Mountain Studios....
- 1/25/2011
- Pastemagazine.com
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