{"id":842,"date":"2011-06-16T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/06\/the-return-of-the-archers-of-loaf.html"},"modified":"2011-06-16T11:40:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T18:40:00","slug":"the-return-of-the-archers-of-loaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/06\/the-return-of-the-archers-of-loaf.html","title":{"rendered":"The Return of the Archers of Loaf"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WHEN the band filed at the Troubadour the other night, I wondered if this might be an Archers of Loaf<\/a> cover band — a Chapel-Hill-meets-’90s nostalgia version of Beatlemania. But despite the fact that gawky, bespectacled Eric Bachmann has transformed himself into a lumber jack since the band’s late-’90s breakup (don’t rock musicians usually waste away?), this was the Archers of old — all the hummable melodies, modern jazz-meets-Sonic Youth-inspired harmonic weirdness, the onstage jumping around, and those unforgettable songs like “Web in Front” and “Wrong.”<\/p>\n

This was one of those reunions I never thought I’d see, and I certainly did not think this North Carolina band that never got its due would make it to the West Coast. (They ended up with two sold-out nights at the Troubadour to kick off a whole West Coast tour.)\u00a0I went to school in Chapel Hill in the early ’90s, so this is a band I’ve been seeing for a long time — real pleasure to see their genius undiminished.<\/p>\n

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HERE<\/a> is a Spin piece by my Raleigh-based colleague on their reuniting. The tour<\/a> still comes through New York, Chicago, Atlanta, DC, Phil, NC, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle.<\/p>\n

The band’s albums are also being reissued<\/a> by Merge.<\/p>\n

All hail the Archers!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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