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Icky Mettle

The debut, made cheaply with Caleb Southern, ranked 32nd on Pitchfork's list of the 1990s.
Archers of Loaf, 1993

Wikipedia says it was recorded and mixed in seven days at Kraptone in Chapel Hill, at a cost of about $5,000, and Bachmann agreed that they spent about five thousand dollars. Bandcamp Daily tells another story, with the band recording late at night on the stage of the Cat's Cradle over about a month, using a NEOTech board and an Otari MX 5050 one-inch 16-track. Sources differ. Pitchfork rated it 9.0 and placed it 32nd among 1990s albums, Spin gave 8 of 10, Christgau an A, and Blender put it 56th among its 100 greatest indie-rock albums. PopMatters, reviewing the 2011 deluxe reissue, called the opener simply perfect.

Track listing

  1. Web in Front
  2. Last Word
  3. Wrong
  4. You and Me
  5. Might
  6. Hate Paste
  7. Fat
  8. Plumb Line
  9. Learo, You're a Hole
  10. Sick File
  11. Toast
  12. Backwash
  13. Slow Worm

More from Archers of Loaf

Vee Vee (1995), All The Nations Airports (1996), White Trash Heroes (1998), Seconds Before The Accident (2000), Reason In Decline (2022)

Sources

  1. Icky Mettle, Wikipedia
  2. Archers of Loaf, Icky Mettle deluxe edition, PopMatters (2011-08-19)