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His very close-miked sound still containing a tasteful (i.e. light) amount of reverb is such a recognizable signature... A true legend, and big coincidence sin
by BoingBoomTschak 2y ago
His very close-miked sound still containing a tasteful (i.e. light) amount of reverb is such a recognizable signature...
A true legend, and big coincidence since I discovered yet another of his production a week ago: Zeni Geva's last three LPs. Almost as important as the ubiquitous Dan Swano in my collection:
$ find -L ~/Music -type f -name album.json -exec jqmusic '.credits | has("Steve Albini")' {} \; -print | awk -F/ '{print $5 " - " $6}'
Big Black - (1986) Atomizer
Big Black - (1982) Lungs
Big Black - (1983) Bulldozer
Big Black - (1987-1) Headache
Big Black - (1987-2) Songs About Fucking
Nine Inch Nails - (1999) The Fragile
Om - (2007) Pilgrimage
The Breeders - (1990) Pod
Nirvana - (1993) In Utero
The Jesus Lizard - (1990) Head
The Jesus Lizard - (1989) Pure
The Jesus Lizard - (1991) Goat
The Jesus Lizard - (1992) Liar
The Jesus Lizard - (1994) Down
Pixies - (1988) Surfer Rosa
PJ Harvey - (1993) Rid of Me
Shellac - (1994) At Action Park
Rapeman - (1988) Two Nuns and a Pack Mule
Zeni Geva - (1993) Desire For Agony
Zeni Geva - (1995) Freedom Bondage
Zeni Geva - (2001) 10,000 Light Years
To actually hear "In Utero" in all its Albini-esque glory, you must find the 2013 20th Anniversary Edition, it's on the 2nd disc.
- geoffeg 2y agoWhat are you using to generate album.json?
- adolph 2y agoAlso, what is this jqmusic executable with the jq style query?
- BoingBoomTschak 2y agoJust a jq wrapper that adds -e and includes some functions $ cat ~/bin/jqmusic #!/usr/bin/env bash exec jq -e "${@:1:$(($#-2))}" "include \"music\"; ${@: -2:1}" "${@: -1}" >/dev/null 2>&1 $ cat ~/.jq/music.jq def year: .released | match("[0-9]{4}").string | tonumber; def has_genre(str): .genres.primary | any(. == str); def match_genre(regexp): .genres.primary | any(match(regexp)); Together with https://git.sr.ht/~q3cpma/rymscrap https://git.sr.ht/~q3cpma/rymscrap to get the actual JSON.
- hipnoizz 2y agoZeni Geva is such a great band! Maybe you have already seen it, but I've always loved this live cover of 'Model' Kraftwerk by Zeni Geva & Albini - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8R7c7XYmI4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8R7c7XYmI4.
- quickthrowman 2y agoI will check out Zeni Geva, thanks for sharing!
- SourPatch 2y agoSteve also played with Zeni Geva as Superunit: https://www.discogs.com/release/876551-Zeni-Geva-Steve-Albini-All-Right-You-Little-Bastards https://www.discogs.com/release/876551-Zeni-Geva-Steve-Albin...
- singingfish 2y agoI'm going to put this here - The Crooked Fiddle Band - a Sydney folk band with major inspiration from Big Black and others had two albums produced by Albini - I couldn't think of a better match: https://crookedfiddleband.bandcamp.com/album/overgrown-tales https://crookedfiddleband.bandcamp.com/album/overgrown-tales https://crookedfiddleband.bandcamp.com/album/moving-pieces-of-the-sea https://crookedfiddleband.bandcamp.com/album/moving-pieces-o...
- ggorlen 2y agoZeni Geva deserves more credit, great to see them mentioned. You probably know Neurosis and Melt Banana but those might also be up your alley. Other noteworthy Albini-engineered bands for me: Oxbow, Low, Whitehouse, Labradford, Burning Witch, Godspeed's U.X.O album. Peter Sotos' Buyer's Market is one of the most insane albums I've ever had the displeasure to listen to, and Albini apparently produced it, although I don't hear any obvious influence.
- jim-jim-jim 2y agoThe Albini-produced Whitehouse albums seem to be underloved because they're a weird transitional period between the group's more famous "wasps fighting" and "broken African robot" sounds, but they're some of the best releases. There's a decadent and sinister competence to them that can't be heard in the earlier buzzier material.