quartet took a counterintuitive next step. Following the fierce and viscerally satisfying eruption of Icky Mettle, the Chapel Hill, N.C. Vee Vee is not my favorite Archers of Loaf album, but that’s not to say the album isn’t its own strange triumph of feedback, punk-pop melodies and chaotic songcraft. And, much to my surprise, at that moment I fell into a minority. It’s a divide along which Archers listeners find themselves on either side, with an even smaller subset breaking for their third and fourth albums, All the Nation’s Aiports and White Trash Heroes, respectively. To my ears, Icky Mettle is a masterpiece of abrasive indie rock, boasting harsh riffs and gleaming hooks in equal measure, whereas Vee Vee had the energy, but not necessarily the taut pop songwriting. Online message boards populated by anonymous members aren’t always the most productive venues for revelatory discussions about music, but nonetheless, it was through this venue where I heard from a number of longtime Archers of Loaf fans that their go-to Loaf recording was not actually Icky Mettle, the band’s acclaimed debut, but Vee Vee, its weirder, messier follow up.
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