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Eric Bachmann returns with No Recover, an album that is both harrowing and beautiful. While No Recover is decidedly mellow and reflective, do not mistake it for the work of a relaxed, satisfied... more

Eric Bachmann returns with No Recover, an album that is both harrowing and beautiful. While No Recover is decidedly mellow and reflective, do not mistake it for the work of a relaxed, satisfied... more

Where Archers of Loaf 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... more

This former Archers of Loaf front man and Crooked Fingers member expands his musical repertoire into film scores with this release. A complex yet riveting menagerie of atmospheric melodies. Diverse... more

There was something sinister about Crooked Fingers, both the name of the project and the music that Eric Bachmann wrote at the helm of it's ever-shifting lineups over 15 years. He retired the moniker... more

His first Saddle Creek release is an unadorned and unapologetically forthright collection of songs. Whereas Bachmann's/Crooked Fingers' 2005 effort, "Dignity And Shame" was his most poppy and... more

Merge Records will reissue all four Archers of Loaf studio albums, starting with their acclaimed 1993 debut album ICKY METTLE on August 2. Re-mastered by Bob Weston and featuring new liner notes by... more

On his fouth full-lenth, he's supported by a cast of returning players from his 2003 breakthrough release. Embracing great traditions of American music from Appalachian folk, southwestern blues,... more

Crooked Fingers return to Merge with the release of BREAKS IN THE ARMOR. It's a cohesive and diverse set of songs with less adorned and more direct and affecting arrangements.

It's perfect music for looking out your window these sorrowful points of human struggling and and injecting them with a sense of eroism. -CMJ.

Incredible collection of Bloodshot Records varied artist roster! Includes new, previously unreleased tracks by Ralph Stanley, Minus 5, Kelly Hogan, Sixteen Horsepower, Old 97s and many many more!

The thrid full-length andfirst and Merge from one of the rock underground's most enigmatic songwriters - Eric Bachmann (ex-Archers of Loaf ftonman). Intricate tales of desperation, betrayal, loss and... more

This femal duo's 3rd release takes the ehtereal aspects of their past work and mixes them with a more upbeat and enlivened technique. Visceral, intimate with soulful harmony, cascading strings and... more

It's been nearly seven years since Azure Ray duo Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor released their critically acclaimed and most recent album Hold on Love. With 3 prior full-lengths and an EP, the duo drew... more

Crooked Fingers will release their fifth LP titled FORFEIT/FORTUNE. FORFEIT/FORTUNE features the fullest and most eclectic orchestration on a Crooked Fingers release to date, enlisting an all-star... more

This is a perversely American record full of sentimentality, contempt, humor, and lust - a pissed off yet hopeful statement from a man who knows that the life of a working musician is as rewarding as... more