Icky Mettle

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Icky Mettle
Studio album by Archers of Loaf
Released	1993
Recorded	1993
Genre	Indie Rock
Length	38:02
Label	Alias Records
Producer(s)	Caleb Southern
Professional reviews
The Michigan Daily (Favorable) link All Music Guide link Robert Christgau (A) link
Archers of Loaf chronology
	Icky Mettle (1993)	Vee Vee (1995)

Icky Mettle (1993) is the first studio album recorded by the indie rock band Archers of Loaf. It was produced and engineered by Caleb Southern at Kraptone Studios in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and released by Alias Records in 1993.

The album was recorded and mixed in seven days. According to Eric Bachmann, "We spent like $5,000 to make it." [1]

The album spent 22 weeks on the CMJ charts. Interview (magazine) declared it the "Best Indie Rock Album of the Year". ^[2] Also, it ranked #32 in Pitchfork Media's original Top 100 albums of the 1990s list. [3]

In a 2005 interview with The Triangle (newspaper), Bachmann reflected on the album rather unpretentiously: "When we first came out we had that energy. It's a weird thing that you can't put your finger on...I listened to 'Icky Mettle', and I almost cringe when I hear it. But what the people probably liked when they heard that record was the energy we were putting out." [4]

[edit] Track listing

1. "Web in Front" – 2:09
2. "Last Word" – 3:35
3. "Wrong" – 3:40
4. "You and Me" – 3:10
5. "Might" – 2:04
6. "Hate Paste" – 2:46
7. "Fat" – 1:19
8. "Plumb Line" – 2:09
9. "Learo, You're a Hole" – 3:51
10. "Sick File" – 1:42
11. "Toast" – 4:38
12. "Backwash" – 3:27
13. "Slow Worm" – 3:32

[edit] Personnel

• Eric Bachmann - vocals, guitar
• Matt Gentling - bass
• Eric Johnson - guitar
• Mark Price - drums

[edit] Notes

1. ↑  Brown, Liz. ROCK REVIEW: Archers Revolution. WWeek.com. Retrieved on June 7, 2006.
2. ↑  Hawthorne, Mark. ARCHERS OF LOAF VS. TINNITUS: A three week vacation in Paradise. The Online Daily of the University of Washington. Retrieved on September 3, 2006.
3. ↑  Carrelli, Jon. Bachmann spills beans to Triangle. The Triangle (newspaper). Retrieved on September 3, 2006.