Seconds Before the Accident
Released: Jun 6, 2000
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Released: Jun 6, 2000
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Recorded live in 1998 at the regionally famous Cat's Cradle in Chapel Hill, NC, Seconds Before the Accident was released two years later, after Archers of Loaf disbanded. The set list is heavy on...
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White Trash Heroes
Released: Sep 22, 1998
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Released: Sep 22, 1998
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The final studio record from the Archers of Loaf is a far cry from their early days of fast, dirty, and unrelenting indie rock anthems, but it is also a phenomenally progressive album for the band...
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Icky Mettle - JAPAN
Released: Aug 25, 1998
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Released: Aug 25, 1998
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Ah, North Carolina. Can anyone explain why it's been such a hotbed of original-sounding music? Why every year there's a new crop from the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill triangle? Sure, it has lots of...
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Vee Vee - JAPAN
Released: Aug 25, 1998
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Released: Aug 25, 1998
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Icky Mettle, Archers of Loaf's debut album, became just enough of an underground hit to scare the band away from most of their pop instincts. Filled with unexpected, jarring shards of noise and...
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All the Nation's Airports
Released: Sep 24, 1996
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Released: Sep 24, 1996
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This band's movement from small releases to major-label distribution turned out quite well -- like a lot of other brilliant pop bands, they managed to make their sound cleaner and more focused...
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The Speed of Cattle
Released: Feb 20, 1996
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Released: Feb 20, 1996
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The Speed of Cattle collects B-sides and rarities from this incredible North Carolina band. Some of the material isn't very vital except for serious fans of the band; the first half of the album...
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Harnessed in Slums
Released: Jul 15, 1995
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Released: Jul 15, 1995
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This single put to bed the idea that Archers of Loaf might have buckled under the pressure of having released a widely acclaimed and fanatically appreciated debut -- "Harnessed in Slums" powers...
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Jive Kata
Released: 1997
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Released: 1997
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The Archers' Jive Kata single was a fanclub-issued 7" that was also sold sporadically at the band's gigs. A harbinger of the White Trash Heroes album to come, "Jive Kata" infuses the darker side of...
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Mutes in the Steeple/Smoking Pot in the Hot City
Released: 1995
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Released: 1995
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"Mutes in the Steeple" is a great early Archers of Loaf single in the same vein of scratchy pop as their debut LP, Icky Mettle. The flip is a playful, dynamic instrumental called "Smoking Pot in...
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Vocal Shrapnel/Density
Released: 1996
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Released: 1996
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With one song from their fourth full-length album and one deserving outtake, Archers of Loaf prove on this single that there's a little bit more focus in their beautiful indie rock mess than most...
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