ACHERS "Bottom of the Hill" TAPE

No Idea Release NIR-363 Released: July 10, 2026 • JULY 2026: 1st run of 100 with black print on orange shell, lovingly housed in hand-made chipboard o-cards along with matching, fold-out, two-sided lyrics insert! (Includes a mailorder-exclusive Download link!) "There is a strong sense of ACHERS being "one of us from London." Good people, grounded and sincere. I hear all of these bands in their vibe: TWELVE HOUR TURN, DRIVE LIKE JEHU, UNWOUND, WIRE, THE VAN PELT, MOONRAKER, GANG OF FOUR, and PAVEMENT. This is the first all-new release on No Idea in nine years, to the month. (...and the first "No Idea 40th Anniversary year" release.) Take that as you will. (No pressure, guys!) "DIY indie noise rock, blending the spirit of DC’s Revolution Summer, 90s post-hardcore, post-punk and melodic indie sensibilities." — From the ACHERS site. O-cards and inserts printed by the fine being at: econopressprints.com ACHERS: Sabrina Amade - bass Pat Smiley - vocals, guitar Pavel Borisov- guitar Vicki Butler - drums Recorded and mixed by Rich Mandell at The Bookhouse Studios March 2025. Mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios. ACHERS website ACHERS bandcamp (listen here!) ACHERS instagram ACHERS youtube TRACK LISTING: 1. Bottom of the Hill 2. Broken Clocks 3. Blue Lights 4. Asahi Bear 5. Go In • Released in the UK and available from: Everything Sucks • “The track "Bottom of the Hill" is about Class melancholia. Of growing up working class and feeling unwelcome and uninitiated in middle class environments, whilst simultaneously keeping yourselves at a distance. It’s about navigating the British Class system, and how if you take the carrot of social mobility, it’s not without its price. A push-pull on both sides, a traitor or an outsider. A feeling of being between two worlds, but if you had to choose (and sometimes it feels like you are asked to choose), the pull of your roots and what shaped your early life usually wins out; “Though I’m walking lines, I know where my allegiance lies.” — Pat / ACHERS. "We’re immensely proud of this ep. In the time it’s taken to get together and write it life has both come into the world and gone out of it for us. Becoming parents and losing parents. It’s been a joyful and extremely challenging few years for us individually and the jams and friendships built around them has been a proper tonic." — From the ACHERS site. Neat stuff people wrote: “Formed in 2022, Achers is a London-based outfit. 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.” — White Light White Heat. https://www.whitelight-whiteheat.com/wl-wh-video-of-the-day-achers-bottom-of-the-hill-official-video/ “ACHERS operate somewhere between post-hardcore and indie rock. You can trace lines back to UNWOUND, FUGAZI, and DRIVE LIKE JEHU, but it’s not cosplay.” — Idiotteq https://idioteq.com/top-underground-records-in-2025-achers-share-their-picks-tease-bottom-of-the-hill-ep/ “Things are spiky and terse but certainly not unfriendly, occupying a place that brings to mind the emo scenes of DC and SAN DIEGO alongside a lick of mid-90s MATADOR or DOMINO Records. Conversational vocals reminiscent of a CHRIS LEO project by way of RICK FROBERG jitters. Reminiscent of TWELVE HOUR TURN, but also deploys a SEAM-y sense of melancholy… moments that recall bands like MOONRAKER, SHOUTBUS! And SEBADOH.” — Collective Zine. https://collective-zine.co.uk/2026/03/24/achers-bottom-of-the-hills-tape-2026/