Thursday, May 31, 2012

Final two Archers of Loaf reissues to be released August 7


Merge Records press release:

On August 7, Merge will reissue All the Nations Airports and White Trash Heroes, the final two albums from Archers of Loaf. Both albums have been remastered by Bob Weston and feature re-imagined cover art, new liner notes and copious bonus material. Also, each album will be available on double-CD, colored vinyl and digital download.

Listen to & share "Deep Red Eyes" from White Trash Heroes now at the Merge SoundCloud page

With All the Nations Airports, the band did not compromise its efforts to push itself in new directions. Archers of Loaf delivered an album that included the straightforward indie-rock songs that had made them famous, interspersed with instrumental tracks, layered tape loops, and even a solo piano song. In Stephen Thompson’s liner notes for the Airports reissue, he says, “It’s music that exists because it must, with all the bile, beauty, and bluster of youth and all the disaffected paranoia of a perpetually worried mind. The album might not have fulfilled Archers of Loaf’s commercial potential at the time, but that makes an awful lot of sense. The band tended to craft its greatest art when it saw fit to scribble in the margins.”

Archers of Loaf almost called it quits after All the Nations Airports due to the strain of touring and the rut of the album cycle (i.e., make record, make video, do interviews, tour, tour, tour; repeat) but decided they would make one more album and see how they felt after that process. They again enlisted the help of Brian Paulson to record the album that became White Trash Heroes. On this album, the band added keyboards to several songs as well as vocoder, and debuted the lead vocals of Matt Gentling on the track "I.N.S." "Banging on a Dead Drum" found all the members swapping instruments and featured some of the worst cowbell ever attempted.

In the liner notes for Merge’s reissue of the Archers’ final album, Josh Modell says, “In hindsight, it’s easy to read White Trash Heroes as both the stormy end to a legendary band and as the beginning of something else: Bachmann’s next project, Crooked Fingers. Hints of what came two years later abound here, particularly on the keyboard undercarriage and restrained energy of ‘Dead Red Eyes’ and the epic, sequencer-assisted title track."

Archers of Loaf - All the Nations Airports
Artwork re-imagined by Ian Dingman; liner notes by NPR Music's Stephen Thompson
Remastered by Bob Weston and reissued on dbl-CD and clear vinyl

Track listing:
1. Strangled by the Stereo Wire
2. All the Nations Airports
3. Scenic Pastures
4. Worst Defense
5. Attack of the Killer Bees
6. Rental Sting
7. Assassination on X-mas Eve
8. Chumming the Ocean
9. Vocal Shrapnel
10. Bones of Her Hands
11. Bumpo
12. Form and File
13. Acromegaly
14. Distance Comes in Droves
15. Bombs Away

Bonus Disc:
1. Density
2. Little Jets
3. Strangled by the Stereo Wire (4-Track Demo)
4. All the Nations Airports (4-Track Demo)
5. Scenic Pastures (4-Track Demo)
6. Trilogy (4-Track Demo)
7. Assassination on X-Mas Eve (4-Track Demo)
8. Chumming the Ocean (4-Track Demo)
9. Vocal Shrapnel (4-Track Demo)
10. Bones of Her Hands (4-Track Demo)
11. Bumpo (4-Track Demo)
12. Form and File (4-Track Demo)
13. Acromegaly (4-Track Demo)
14. Distance Comes in Droves (4-Track Demo)
15. Bombs Away (4-Track Demo)
16. Density (4-Track Demo)
17. Little Jets (4-Track Demo)
18. There Has To Be Something (4-Track Demo)
19. Total Failure (4-Track Demo)

Archers of Loaf - White Trash Heroes
Album art re-imagined by Casey Burns; liner notes by the A.V. Club's Josh Modell
Remastered by Bob Weston and reissued on dbl-CD and white vinyl

Track listing:
1. Fashion Bleeds
2. Dead Red Eyes
3. I.N.S.
4. Perfect Time
5. Slick Tricks and Bright Lights
6. One Slight Wrong Move
7. Banging on a Dead Drum
8. Smokers in Love
9. After the Last Laugh
10. White Trash Heroes

Bonus Disc:
1. Jive Kata
2. Fashion Bleeds (4-Track Demo)
3. Dead Red Eyes (4-Track Demo)
4. Slick Tricks and Bright Lights (4-Track Demo)
5. One Slight Wrong Move (4-Track Demo)
6. Banging on a Dead Drum (4-Track Demo)
7. Smokers in Love (4-Track Demo)
8. After the Last Laugh (4-Track Demo)
9. White Trash Heroes (4-Track Demo)
10. Untitled and Forgotten (4-Track Demo)
11. Walk of Shame
12. Untitled
13. Whooh!

Monday, May 28, 2012

Download “Everybody Dies” from Love and Zombies NOW

Download “Everybody Dies” from Love and Zombies NOW

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For Fans Of: Against Me, My Chemical Romance, Iggy and The Stooges, Sonic Youth, Rancid and Blur

California, April 2012 -
A three minute punk rock roar, “Everybody Dies” from Love and Zombies dives into your eardrums and digs its way into your mind. “Everybody Dies” is the third track put out in 2012 by Love and Zombies, the California punk rock project of Doug Young, and it hit the Internet hard at the end of April.
“Everybody Dies” starts off with rifle shot drum beats, then the guitars swagger in bringing the power and a blitzkrieg of noise jumps forth. A catchy hook emerges from the wall of sound and the vocals burst forth to tell a tale of pop culture obsession, doom and disinterest.
Crafting a sound that is informed by raw, messy punk bands like NOFX and aggressive alternative bands like Placebo and Mindless Self Indulgence, Love and Zombies mixes elements of pop and punk and progressive alternative rock that fits comfortably in between new and old.
Young is the head, the body and the heart of the Love and Zombies machine. He writes all the songs, sings, plays all the instruments, records and mixes the tracks, does all the artwork and makes sure there are no compromises. The complex blistering wave of attitude and aggression, with a slight hue of resignation, that is the song “Everybody Dies” sounds like it was produced in a top-shelf recording studio with a full cast of band members and producers, yet it is just Young who is Love and Zombies.

“It takes forever to finish tracks. It’d probably take less time to find members and teach them to play the parts, and go into a studio, but that’s not really an option at this point in time,” Young says. “Plus there’s a strong sense of accomplishment when you have that kind of ownership over a completed project.”
Young cut his teeth in Southern California pop-punk outfits The Muchruckers and Pale Like You – as a singer, guitarist and a bassist. A true Do It Yourself (DIY) artist, Young is a dedicated musician who strives every week to create a fresh new sound and story, record it, perfect it and unleash it upon the ears of music fans waiting for an intense, sometimes angry, sometime juvenile, sometimes intellectual, always ready to go sound that keeps pace with today’s frenetic culture.
Hear the sound of one music fan fighting against an army of sub-par music scenesters more interested in the latest fix than anything quality, by downloading “Everybody Dies” NOW.

Everybody Dies Mp3 Stream : http://soundcloud.com/loveandzombies/everybody-dies
Everybody Dies Mp3 Download : http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ie70zqquvh8x5ik
For more information on Love and Zombies contact Doug Young at loveandzombies@live.com

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Everybody Dies:
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Everybody Dies Mp3 Download : http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ie70zqquvh8x5ik
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