WL//WH Video Of The Day Achers
Formed in 2022, Achers is a London-based outfit comprising bassist Sabrina Amade (also part of cult post-punk veterans Wasted Youth), guitarist/vocalist Pat Smiley, guitarist Pavel Borisov (a.k.a. Frailtynine), and former Ghum drummer Vicki Butler.
The group delivers glacial, wiry and hallucinatory atmospheres set in intensely expressive and grinding earnest DIY 90s Post-Hardcore territories, influenced by a wide gamut of noisy guitar-driven bands from Slint, Unwound, Drive Like Jehu and At The Drive-In, to Pixies and Pavement, peppered with the ’80s post-punk serrated jaggedness of Gang of Four and Wire.
Following the 2023 demo “Go in”, the band glimpses next year’s 5-song EP, “Bottom of the Hill”, due on February 5th, 2026, with an Official Video by Sabrina Amade herself for the title track, “Bottom of the Hill”.
“Bottom of the Hill” places punchy drum beats woven with urgent, gloomy bass lines to relentlessly throb and stumble through rambling, abrasive, barbed sheets of dire, piercing and unnerving ringing guitar tones, to drift over frustrated, angry sing-shout male vocals, with pain-filled turns of sadness and anxiety.
The visuals by Sabrina Amade use archival footage that contrasts working in the coal mines with busy, rapid-paced office work scenes and dressy royal receptions to sync with the class conflict expressed in the soundtrack. Mixed within the vision, you will see a vintage barrage of cartoons, TV commercials, and game shows that colorfully and enthusiastically pushed the masses, from all directions, into a stressed-out culture of competition, winning, and trying to climb to the top of the ladder.
Achers‘ “Bottom of the Hill” EP, via Everything Sucks Music, will be available as a limited edition cassette on Bandcamp.
Catch the band live on 8th February at The Shackwell Arms, London and 3rd-5th April at Manchester Punk Festival.
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