Latest Release
- OCT 21, 2022
- 10 Songs
- Icky Mettle (Remastered) · 1993
- Vee Vee (Remastered) · 1995
- Icky Mettle (Remastered) · 1993
- Icky Mettle (Deluxe Remaster) · 1993
- Talking Over Talk / Cruel Reminder - Single · 2020
- Vee Vee (Deluxe Remaster) · 1995
- Vee Vee (Deluxe Remaster) · 1995
- Icky Mettle (Remastered) · 1993
- White Trash Heroes (Remastered) · 1998
- Icky Mettle (Remastered) · 1993
Essential Albums
- Icky Mettle opens with one of the greatest songs of the ‘90s indie-rock era: On “Web in Front,” the Archers firm up the slack-rock foundation laid down by their peers in Pavement with a lockstep backbeat and taut lattice of overlapping melodies that manage to coax the sweetness out of lines like “All I ever wanted was to be your spine.” That combination of romance and rancor fuels the equally infectious “Plumb Line,” while yielding more volatile results on the raucously anthemic “Wrong.”
Music Videos
- 1993
Artist Playlists
- In a city known for quirky indie rock bands, they may have been the quirkiest.
Singles & EPs
About Archers of Loaf
Archers of Loaf were darlings of the indie world in the early to mid-'90s, thanks to an off-kilter sound that was edgy and challenging, yet melodically accessible at the same time. Their music was frequently likened to a more intense, raucous version of Pavement's postmodern pop (with some of Sonic Youth's noisy report and the Replacements' shambolic attack), and they shared their fractured song constructions, abstractly witty lyrics, clangorous guitars, and lo-fi production on early efforts like 1994's Icky Mettle and 1995's Vee Vee. The production got smoother on 1996's All the Nation's Airports, and they experimented with their formula on 1998's White Trash Heroes, released the year they split up. Archers of Loaf reunited in 2011 for live work, and in 2022, they brought out the more nuanced and melodic Reason in Decline.
- ORIGIN
- Chapel Hill, NC, United States
- FORMED
- 1991
- GENRE
- Alternative