Artist: Archers Of Loaf: mp3 download Genre(s): Rock Discography: Vee Vee Year: 1995 Tracks: 13 The Archers of Loaf were darlings of the indie cosmos in the early to mid-'90s, thanks to an off-kilter sound that was edgy and challenging, so far melodically accessible at the like time. Cornerstones of the Chapel Hill, NC, indie panorama that as well spawned Superchunk and Polvo, the Archers' headman inspirations were the Replacements and Sonic Youth, merely that only began to say the narration. Their music was a great deal likened to a more intense, shrill variant of Pavement's postmodern pop, and indeed they shared key fruit elements: fractured song constructions, abstractly witty lyrics, clangorous guitars, and lo-fi production. More frozen in kindling and stochasticity rock, however, the Archers took the dissonance, egg white River noise, and angular shape to greater extremes, and played with more overt committedness and enthusiasm in concert. The Archers became a hip name to dribble with their acclaimed 1993 debut, Crappy Mettle; several more than accomplished albums followed in the first place the mathematical group called it quits in 1998.The Archers of Loaf were formed in Chapel Hill in 1991, when all quaternion members were attendance the University of North Carolina. Coincidentally, they'd all grownup up in Asheville, in the western division of the state, only hadn't all deceased to the same schools. Singer/guitarist Eric Bachmann, guitarist Eric Johnson, bassist Matt Gentling, and drummer Mark Price cut an independently released single, "Wrong," that helped them land a narrow with the California-based indie judge Alias (besides remain home to releases by American Music Club and Yo La Tengo). Another undivided, "Web in Front," became a hearty spot on college radiocommunication in 1993, creating a stiff buzz for the group's full-length debut. Gooey Mettle arrived by and by in the yr to highly positive reviews and more than alternative-radio airplay, and the Archers supported it with an lengthened national enlistment.A five-song creation EP, Archers of Loaf vs the Greatest of All Time, arrived on the heels of Icky Mettle in 1994. Amid growing media attending, Madonna's Maverick label made a play for the band, only they elective to retain developing on an independent, with lour commercial bet. Their arcsecond record album, the rawer and noisier Vee Vee, appeared in 1995 and was an regular larger college-radio hit, thanks in part to the unmarried "Harnessed in Slums." The album landed in the CMJ Top Five, and regular got some press from the hipper mainstream media outlets. In its wake, Eric Bachmann convened the Chapel Hill face design Barry Black, an eclectic, mostly subservient kit apt to flaky arrangements; their eponymous number one record album was likewise released in 1995.Meanwhile, the Archers compiled a raft of non-LP indie singles, B-sides, start takes, and unrecorded cuts for 1996's The Speed of Cattle. Their right third record album, All the Nation's Airports, came out later that class and showed the band moving into quieter, more layered territory. Bachmann's arcsecond criminal record album with Barry Black, Tragic Animal Stories, arrived in 1997, as did the live Archers of Loaf EP St. Vitus Tinnitus. The band's fourth proper album, 1998's Tweed Trash Heroes, continued its geographic expedition of calmer, more roomie sounds, and began to contain keyboards and samples. However, their endurance contest touring commitments were tributary to a sensation of stagnation privileged the chemical group. After the supporting circuit for Heroes, the Archers distinct to call it quits. A live record record album recorded at that tour's Chapel Hill show, Seconds Before the Accident, was released posthumously in 2000. Bachmann affected on to the folkier Crooked Fingers, which issued the first of several albums in 2000 as well. |