Wretch (album)
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{{Infobox album
| name = Wretch
| type = studio
| artist = Kyuss
| cover = Kyuss Wretch.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{Start date|1991|09|23}}
| recorded = 1989–1991
| venue =
| studio = {{plainlist|
- Headway Studios (Westminster, California)
- Master Control Recording Studios (Burbank, California)
}}
| genre = {{hlist|Stoner rock|stoner metal}}
| length = {{Duration|m=48|s=49}}
| label = Dali
| producer = {{plainlist|
- Catherine Enny
- Ron Krown
- Kyuss
}}
| prev_title = Sons of Kyuss
| prev_year = 1990
| next_title = Blues for the Red Sun
| next_year = 1992
}}
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{rating|2.5|5}}{{cite web|title=Wretch – Review by Eduardo Rivadavia|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r129908|pure_url=yes}}|website=AllMusic|author=Rivadavia, Eduardo|accessdate=March 17, 2010}}
| rev2 = Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal
| rev2score = 8/10{{cite book |last1=Popoff |first1=Martin |author-link1=Martin Popoff |title=The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties |publisher=Collector's Guide Publishing |year=2007 |location=Burlington, Ontario, Canada |isbn=978-1-894959-62-9 |page=235}}
|rev3 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide
|rev3score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}Brackett, Nathan. "Kyuss". The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. November 2004. pg. 473, cited March 17, 2010
}}
Wretch is the first full-length album by American rock band Kyuss, released in September 1991. The tracks "Black Widow" and "Deadly Kiss" are taken from the band's debut EP, Sons of Kyuss (1990), recorded with original bassist Chris Cockrell, while the rest of the album was recorded with his replacement Nick Oliveri.{{Cite AV media notes |title=Wretch |others=Kyuss |year=1991 |type=CD liner notes |publisher=Dali Records |id=DALi 61256-2 |location=Burbank, California}}{{cite magazine |title=Kyuss Lands on Its Feet and Keeps Climbing |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FwgEAAAAMBAJ&dq=Kyuss+tour+blues+for+the+red+sun&pg=PA76 |last=Morris |first=Chris |magazine=Billboard |date=January 15, 1994}} The Sons of Kyuss songs "Love Has Passed Me By", "Katzenjammer", and "Isolation Desolation" were re-recorded for Wretch, the latter's title shortened to "Isolation".
Track listing
Writing credits adapted from the album's liner notes.
{{tracklist
| total_length = 48:49
| title1 = (Beginning of What's About to Happen) Hwy 74
| writer1 = Josh Homme
| length1 = 4:43
| title2 = Love Has Passed Me By
| writer2 = Homme, Brant Bjork
| length2 = 3:12
| title3 = Son of a Bitch
| writer3 = Homme, John Garcia, Nick Oliveri
| length3 = 6:03
| title4 = Black Widow
| note4 = from Sons of Kyuss, 1990
| writer4 = Homme
| length4 = 2:44
| title5 = Katzenjammer
| writer5 = Homme, Chris Cockrell
| length5 = 2:23
| title6 = Deadly Kiss
| note6 = from Sons of Kyuss, 1990
| writer6 = Homme
| length6 = 5:05
| title7 = The Law
| writer7 = Homme, Oliveri
| length7 = 7:53
| title8 = Isolation
| writer8 = Homme
| length8 = 2:48
| title9 = I'm Not
| writer9 = Homme, Garcia
| length9 = 4:39
| title10 = Big Bikes
| writer10 = Bjork
| length10 = 5:01
| title11 = Stage III
| writer11 = Bjork
| length11 = 4:14
}}
Personnel
Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.
Kyuss
- John Garcia – vocals, producer
- Josh Homme – guitar, producer
- Brant Bjork – drums, producer
- Nick Oliveri – bass on all tracks except "Black Widow" and "Deadly Kiss", producer
- Chris Cockrell – bass on "Black Widow" and "Deadly Kiss"
Production
- Catherine Enny – producer
- Ron Krown – producer
- J.B. Lawrence – recording engineer
- Chris Fuhrman – mixing engineer of all tracks except "Black Widow" and "Deadly Kiss"
- Michael Mikulka – mixing engineer of "Black Widow" and "Deadly Kiss"
- Carol Hibbs – mastering engineer
Artwork
- Harlan Williams – layout, design
- NTS – art direction
- Mark Cieslikowski – back cover photograph