Icky Mettle is the debut 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.

[12] Icky Mettle ranked number 32 in Pitchfork's original Top 100 Albums of the 1990s list,[13] and Blender ranked it at number 56 in their 100 Greatest Indie-Rock Albums Ever list.

[14] In a retrospective review, Spin's Mike Powell describes it as "an album of boyish fits and noisy guitar flurries.

It's indie rock as hearty and art-free as oatmeal, before the line separating it from the mainstream dissolved, before it became so...