Archers of Loaf were an American indie-rock band originally from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. City nickname: The Southern Part of Heaven County Orange County Mayor Kevin C. Foy Term Expires: 12/2007 Town Council Laurin Easthom Term Expires: 12/2009 Sally Greene Term Expires: 12/2007 Ed Harrison Term Expires: 12/2009 Cam Hill Term Expires: 12/2007 Mark Kleinschmidt Term Expires: 12/2009... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Eric Bachmann is the lead singer of Crooked Fingers and was formerly of the now defunct band Archers of Loaf. ... Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that primarily exists in the independent underground music scene. ... City nickname: The Southern Part of Heaven County Orange County Mayor Kevin C. Foy Term Expires: 12/2007 Town Council Laurin Easthom Term Expires: 12/2009 Sally Greene Term Expires: 12/2007 Ed Harrison Term Expires: 12/2009 Cam Hill Term Expires: 12/2007 Mark Kleinschmidt Term Expires: 12/2009...

Singer/guitarist Eric Bachmann, guitarist Eric Johnson, bassist Matt Gentling, and drummer Mark Price, all originally from Ashville, NC, formed Archers of Loaf in the early 1990s. Following the success of their independently released single "Wrong", the band signed with Alias records and released their second single "Web in Front", which garnered moderate college radio airplay. The success of "Web In Front" led to the release of Icky Mettle, their first full album, in 1994. "Icky Mettle", with its odd mix of spiky guitar riffs, white noise and tuneful mumbling, was well received and was considered by many critics at the time as being among the top 10 albums of the year. Eric Bachmann is the lead singer of Crooked Fingers and was formerly of the now defunct band Archers of Loaf. ... See also 1990s, the band The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, sometimes informally including popular culture from the very late 1980s and from 2000 and beyond. ...

In 1994, the Archers released the EP entitled Vs. The Greatest of All Time. 1995's Vee Vee followed a similar template, still skipping between noise and harmony, seriousness and absurdity, but sounding more well-rounded and better produced, most notably on the track Harnessed in Slums, which became another hit on college radio. In 1996 the band released The Speed of Cattle, a collection of B-sides, singles, and John Peel session tracks. In recorded music, the terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 7 inch vinyl records on which singles have been released since the 1950s. ... Autobiography John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was a British disc jockey, radio presenter, and journalist. ...

Their third studio album, 1996's All the Nation's Airports, was more sonically sophisticated and lyrically complex than the band's previous efforts. The band toured extensively in support of the record, to limited mass commercial success. The band's final LP, White Trash Heroes, stood apart from their other releases, sounding much more melancholic and mature. With an increased use of keyboards and even drum machines, the album deviated drastically from their first three albums as Bachmann explored his darker, moodier, and quirkier songwriting abilities. During the tour supporting White Trash Heroes, Eric Johnson missed several dates due to his day job's work schedule. Brian Causey, guitarist for Man or Astroman? and friend of the band, filled in for the missing Johnson. Man or Astro-man? were an anachronistic band of the 1990s that fused the surf rock style of the early 1960s with the sound of Sonic Youth, the look of Devo, science fiction themes and audio samples, obscure electronic devices (such as theremins and tesla coils), and high-energy live...

The band amicably split in late 1998, with Bachmann moving on to multiple solo projects such as Crooked Fingers. Gentling went on to, among other things, provide extra instrumentation on tour with another North Carolina-bred band, Superchunk. Crooked Fingers is the name of a band led by former Archers of Loaf lead singer Eric Bachmann. ... Superchunk. ...

In 2000, Alias released Seconds Before the Accident, the band's first and final official live album off their final tour. This article is about the year 2000. ...

Discography

• Albums
  • Icky Mettle (Alias, 1994)
  • Vee Vee (Alias, 1995)
  • All the Nations Airports (Alias, 1996)
  • White Trash Heroes (Alias, 1998)
  • Seconds Before the Accident (Alias, 2000)

• EPs and other collections
  • Vs the Greatest of All Time (Alias, 1994)
  • The Speed of Cattle (Alias, 1996_
  • Vitus Tinnitus (Alias, 1997)

• Singles
  • Web in Front/Bathroom/Tatyana (Alias, 1993)
  • The Results After the Loafs Revenge: What Did You Expect/Ethel Merman (Merge, 1994)
  • Funnelhead/Quinnbeast split with Treepeople, (Sonic Bubblegum, 1994)
  • Harnessed in Slums (Alias, 1995)
  • Mutes in the Steeple/Smoking Pot in the Hot City (Esther, 1995)
  • Vocal Shrapnel/Density (Alias, 1996)
  • Jive Kata (Alias, 1997)

Icky Mettle (1993) is the first proper, full-length album recorded by the indie rock band Archers of Loaf. ... Vee Vee is the second studio album recorded by the indie rock band Archers of Loaf. ... White Trash Heroes (1998) is the final LP release from the indie-rock band, Archers of Loaf. ... TreePeople is a Los Angeles nonprofit that encourages the planting of trees. ...

External links

• Alias Records' Archers of Loaf Site
• Archers of Loaf Lyrics
• Archers of Loaf at MusicBrainz
• Icky Mettle Review