Eric Bachmann
Short Careers: Original Score for the Film "Ball of Wax"
Merge
2001
Rating: 7 innings of stretch out of 10
Eric Bachmann can do no wrong in my book. Small 23, Archers of Loaf, Barry Black, Crooked Fingers...every release by every one of these groups holds a near and dear spot in my record collection. This is Bachmann’s first soundtrack, but he comes off sounding like a seasoned professional. A lot of people seem to know him for his gruff and scraggly Neil Diamond-meets-Bruce Springsteen voice, but the musicianship displayed on this album is phenomenal. It most closely resembles his Barry Black work (a mostly instrumental solo side-project he undertook while still in the Archers, where he played 90% of the instruments), but you can see the influence from all of his other bands creep in from time to time. Odd marching time signatures, strings galore, ambient noises, deft guitar finger picking - this and even more make up this entertaining score. There’s a reason that the Archers of Loaf are considered one of the greatest bands of the nineties, and in my book, probably one of the greatest ever.
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