pBy June 1993, when Washington, D.C.'s Fugazi released their third full-length album iIn on the Kill Takeri, the quartet was reaching a thunderous peak in popularity and influence. With two EPs combined into the classic CD i13 songsi and two albums 1990's genre-defining iRepeateri and 1991's impressionistic follow-up iSteady Diet of Nothingi inside of five years, Fugazi was on creative roll, astounding increasingly large audiences as they toured, blasting fist-pumping anthems and jammy noise-workouts that roared into every open underground heart. When the album debuted on the now-SoundScan-driven charts, Fugazi had never been more in the public eye. pFew knew how difficult it had been to make this popular breakthrough. Disappointed with the sound of the self-produced iSteady Dieti, the band recorded with legendary engineer Steve Albini, only to scrap the sessions and record at home in D.C. with Ted Niceley, their brilliant, under-known producer. Inadvertently, Fugazi chose an unsure mo