Butterglory - She's Got the Akshun!

What this video is

Butterglory was a lo-fi indie-rock duo from Lawrence, Kansas (via California), composed of Matt Suggs and Debby Vander Wall, and was a contemporary of Pavement and Archers of Loaf on the Merge Records roster. 'She's Got the Akshun!' was the title track of a three-song EP released January 30, 1996, the same year as their album Are You Building a Temple in Heaven? — a period that represented the apex of mid-90s…

Why it matters

This video is a primary artifact of mid-1990s American lo-fi indie rock, representing the aesthetic and cultural values of the Merge Records underground at its most unguarded. As a low-budget visual document of one of the era's cult acts, it captures the pre-internet, college-radio-driven indie…