All The Nations Airports 2CD (2012 Reissue)

Reissue released August 6, 2012 - Merge Records

With All the Nations Airports, originally released in 1996, Archers of Loaf were uncompromising in their efforts to push themselves in new directions. They delivered an album that included some of the more simple indie pop songs that had made them famous as well as four instrumental tracks, layered tape loops and even a solo piano song, but the song structures became much more complex. These songs provided a wide range of color and emotion but somehow none of the songs seemed out of place on the album. 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.”

Disc One

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

Disc Two (Bonus Tracks)

1. Density
2. Little Jets
3. Strangled by the Stereo Wire *
4. All the Nations Airports *
5. Scenic Pastures *
6. Trilogy *
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 *
16. Density *
17. Little Jets *
18. There Has To Be Something *
19. Total Failure *

*4-Track Demo