Iain Archer is a singer–songwriter/producer from
Bangor, Northern Ireland. Archer comes from a musical background and released several solo albums in the mid-1990s on the small Scottish independent label Sticky Music. After a stint with
Snow Patrol and a side project with the band's frontman
Gary Lightbody in
The Reindeer Section, he returned to his solo career. In 2004, he released the album
Flood the Tanks, and in 2006
Magnetic North, co-produced with
David Kosten (
Bat for Lashes,
Everything Everything), both to critical acclaim. His most recent album,
To the Pine Roots, was released in 2009.