{"product_id":"eric-bachmann-eric-bachmann","title":"Eric Bachmann - Eric Bachmann","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIncluded in:\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/v-clubs-20-best-albums-2016-246644\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe AV Club's 20 Best Records of 2016\u003c\/a\u003e (#12)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/bittersoutherner.com\/best-southern-albums-2016\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBitter Southerner's Best Southern Records of 2016\u003c\/a\u003e (#24)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.aquariumdrunkard.com\/2016\/12\/12\/aquarium-drunkard-2016-year-in-review\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAquarium Drunkard's 2016 Year in Review\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty-five years after \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/archers-of-loaf\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArchers of Loaf\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e broke onto Chapel Hill, North Carolina’s vital indie scene, frontman \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/eric-bachmann\"\u003eEric Bachmann\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e has recorded the rawest, most honest work of his career under his own name. \u003ci\u003eEric Bachmann\u003c\/i\u003e marks the end of Bachmann’s post-Archers solo project \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/crooked-fingers\"\u003eCrooked Fingers\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, and the beginning of a candid new sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhere Archers had attitude and guitar-driven intensity, \u003ci\u003eEric Bachmann \u003c\/i\u003ehas 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 \u003ci\u003eEric Bachmann \u003c\/i\u003eare direct challenges—to social injustice, to precarious love, and frequently to Southern hypocrisy.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRecorded in Asheville, NC, and mixed in Taiwan by Athens, GA, expat engineer Andy Baker, \u003ci\u003eEric Bachmann\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eLP includes the bonus track \"Boomerang\" as a digital download.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cfont style=\"color: red; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\" color=\"red\"\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont style=\"color: red; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\" color=\"red\"\u003eLP includes a coupon for a full download,\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"merge records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":52739204546871,"sku":"MRG548CD","price":14.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Download","offer_id":52739204514103,"sku":"MRG548digital","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/3935\/3143\/files\/feeb5d790dd597aee86936d6e5b7e40209a7b5e0_3792329ecd419d8af88b63703906534932db9713_medium_jpg_6199ea73-2658-4740-8fd4-7be716e674d5.jpg?v=1789600358","url":"https:\/\/mergerecords.com\/products\/eric-bachmann-eric-bachmann","provider":"Merge Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}