Album
Icky Mettle (Deluxe Reissue)
1993Rock · Music · Alternative
The North Carolina indie rockers deliver a taut, raucous debut.
Tracks
- 12:06
- 23:36
- 33:40
- 43:10
- 52:05
- 62:46
- 71:18
- 82:03
- 93:50
- 101:43
- 114:37
- 123:26
- 133:33
- 144:49
- 152:23
- 162:35
- 173:58
- 183:49
- 193:49
- 203:33
- 212:08
- 221:45
- 234:43
- 243:12
- 252:41
- 263:42
- 273:37
About this album
Icky Mettle opens with one of the greatest songs of the ‘90s indie-rock era: On “Web in Front”, the Archers firm up the slack-rock foundation laid down by their peers in Pavement with a lockstep backbeat and taut lattice of overlapping melodies that manage to coax the sweetness out of lines like “All I ever wanted was to be your spine”. That combination of romance and rancour fuels the equally infectious “Plumb Line”, while yielding more volatile results on the raucously anthemic “Wrong”.