Name: Eric Bachmann
Brand: Eric Bachmann

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MRG548LP

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2016-03-25

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Sales:8.875

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673855054810

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Eric Bachmann

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Merge Records

Eric Bachmann is a former leader of the band Archers Of Loaf, which disbanded in 1998. Currently, he records with Crooked Fingers, a project that primarily consists of himself and a rotating lineup. In 2006, Bachmann released his first solo album on Saddle Creek.

Bachmann's musical talents extend beyond his own projects. He collaborated with Micah P. Hinson on the album "Micah P. Hinson And The Opera Circuit," where he showcased his saxophone skills. Additionally, Bachmann arranged most of the orchestral pieces featuring strings on three of Micah's albums.

With influences ranging from Crooked Fingers to Lou Barlow and Jeff Tweedy, Eric Bachmann's music resonates with fans who appreciate artists like Clem Snide and Songs: Ohia. His unique sound combines elements of folk and indie rock, creating an authentic listening experience for all.

Twenty-five years after Archers of Loaf broke onto Chapel Hill, North Carolina's vital indie scene, frontman Eric Bachmann is recording the rawest, most honest work of his career under his own name. The March 25 release of Eric Bachmann marks the end of Bachmann's post-Archers solo project Crooked Fingers, and the beginning of a candid new sound. Where Archers had attitude and guitar-driven intensity, Eric Bachmann has vulnerability, led by piano, rich vocal harmonies, and Bachmann's hard-won liberty to lay himself bare. There is less of an externalized character to be responsible to, says Bachmann, referring to the sardonic smart-ass who narrated the Archers' music, or the gossiping storyteller at the helm of Crooked Fingers. When I think about why I am compelled to put my own name on a thing as a proper title now, all of these various perspectives feel unnecessary. Even in their exhilarating beauty, the nine original tracks on Eric Bachmann are direct challenges to social injustice, to precarious love, and frequently to Southern hypocrisy. Recorded in Asheville, NC, and mixed in Taiwan by Athens, GA, expat engineer Andy Baker, Eric Bachmann features musicians including Jeremy Wheatley, Matthew Nelson, Jon Rauhouse, Tracey Wolf, Samara Waller, Wade Rittenberry, and Liz Durrett, who wrote the track 'Carolina'. My wandering lifestyle has presented only one nugget of clarity in my life that places do not offer a sense of home for me. People do, says Bachmann of the ideas that guide him in this new era of his career.

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