Archers Of Loaf / Icky Mettle

Merge

formats available

2XCD
$13.75
MRG 415 CD
673855041520
Street Date:
August 2nd, 2011
Ship Date:
July 25th, 2011
LP
$17.25
MRG 415
673855041513
Street Date:
August 2nd, 2011
Ship Date:
July 25th, 2011

REISSUED!!! Merge Records will reissue all four ARCHERS OF LOAF studio albums, starting with their acclaimed 1993 debut album Icky Mettle on August 2. Singer/guitarist ERIC BACHMANN, guitarist ERIC JOHNSON, bassist MATT GENTLING and drummer MARK PRICE formed Archers of Loaf in Chapel Hill, NC in 1991. Icky Mettle was the first of four studio albums for the band that seemed to personify what SPIN Magazine deemed “a tremendously optimistic time in underground music, that 15-minute period in the early 1990s when it looked like indie rock really might take over the world.” Remastered by BOB WESTON and featuring new liner notes by ROBERT CHRISTGAU, Icky Mettle will come with bonus material including the entire Archers of Loaf vs. The Greatest of All Time EP as well as singles and B-sides from the Icky Mettle era. Reissues of Vee Vee, All the Nation’s Airports and White Trash Heroes will follow next year. (STREET DATE - 8/02/2011)