On their electrifying second album, Archers of Loaf shattered any lingering assumptions that they belonged to the horde of early-‘90s indie-rock slackers. With “Harnessed in Slums”, they deliver an underdog anthem for the ages, powered by a white-knuckled punk intensity and Eric Bachmann’s hoarse-throat rallying cries. But their valorisation of the outcast assumes a more tragic tone on “Greatest of All Time”, a barbed-wire ballad whose dejected mantra—”the underground is overcrowded”—serves as an eternal requiem for independent spirits co-opted by corporations.
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