Steve Albini est sans doute le premier producteur ingénieur du son dont j'ai entendu parler lorsque j'ai commencé à écouter du rock. Son nom m'aura accompagné jusqu'à aujourd'hui dans les notes et crédits de nombreux albums appréciés. Il est décédé Mercredi 8 mai à 61 ans d'une crise cardiaque survenue alors qu'il était dans son studio d'enregistrement Electrical Audio (Chicago, Illinois). J'ai eu la chance de le voir sur scène en 2016 avec son groupe Shellac.
Sélection personnelle parmi tous albums sur lesquels il a travaillé :
Slint – Tweez [credited as "some fuckin' derd niffer"] (1987)
Pixies – Surfer Rosa (1988)
the Breeders – Pod (1990)
Boss Hog – Cold Hands (1990)
the Wedding Present – Seamonsters (1991)
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – s/t (1992)
Fugazi – In on the Kill Taker [unofficial recording only, band chose to go with different producers for official release] (1992)
PJ Harvey – Rid of Me (1993)
Nirvana – In Utero (1993)
Slint – untitled (1994)
Gastr del Sol – Mirror Repair EP (1995)
Palace Music – Viva Last Blues (1995)
The Auteurs – After Murder Park (1996)
Palace Music – Arise Therefore (1996)
Smog – Kicking a Couple Around EP (1996)
Les Thugs – Strike (1996)
Low – Transmission EP (1996)
Guided by Voices – Under the Bushes Under the Stars [two songs only, credited to "Fluss"] (1996)
Veruca Salt – Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt (1996)
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Acme (1998)
Will Oldham – Little Joya (1998)
Dirty Three – Ocean Songs (1998)
The Ex – Starters Alternators (1998)
Dirty Three – Ufkuko (1998)
Bedhead – Transaction de Novo (1998)
Nina Nastasia – Dogs (1999)
Low – Secret Name (1999)
Shannon Wright – Maps of Tacit (2000)
The Ex – Dizzy Spells (2001)
Shannon Wright – Dyed in the Wool (2001)
Danielson Famile – Fetch the Compass Kids (2001)
Labradford – Fixed::Context (2001)
Mogwai – "My Father My King" (2001)
The New Year – Newness Ends (2001)
Low – Things We Lost in the Fire (2001)
Nina Nastasia – The Blackened Air (2002)
Bellini – Snowing Sun (2002)
The Breeders – Title TK (2002)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Yanqui U.X.O. (2002)
Dionysos – Western sous la neige (2002)
Dead Man Ray – Cago (2002)
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Plastic Fang (2002)
Scout Niblett – I Am (2003)
Songs: Ohia – The Magnolia Electric Co. (2003)
Nina Nastasia – Run to Ruin (2003)
Shannon Wright – Over the Sun (2004)
Electrelane – The Power Out (2004)
The Ex – Turn (2004)
Scout Niblett – Uptown Top Ranking (2004)
Mono – Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined (2004)
Electrelane – Axes (2005)
Scout Niblett – Kidnapped by Neptune (2005)
Magnolia Electric Co. – What Comes After the Blues (2005)
Mono – You Are There (2006)
Joanna Newsom – Ys (2006)
Nina Nastasia – On Leaving (2006)
Chevreuil – (((Capoëira))) (2006)
Nina Nastasia + Jim White – You Follow Me (2007)
Scout Niblett – This Fool Can Die Now (2007)
The Breeders – Mountain Battles (2008)
Mono – Hymn to the Immortal Wind (2009)
Jarvis Cocker – Further Complications (2009)
Magnolia Electric Co. – Josephine (2009)
Motorpsycho – Child of the Future (2009)
Sparklehorse – Bird Machine (2009)
Scout Niblett – The Calcination of Scout Niblett (2010)
The Ex – Catch My Shoe (2010)
Nina Nastasia – Outlaster (2010)
Joan of Arc – Life Like (2011)
Cloud Nothings – Attack on Memory (2012)
The Cribs – In The Belly of the Brazen Bull (2012)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – Now Here's My Plan (2012)
Esben and the Witch – A New Nature (2014)
Screaming Females – Live at the Hideout (2014)
Mono – Requiem For Hell (2016)
Ty Segall – s/t (2017)
The Cribs – 24/7 Rock Star Shit (2017)
METZ – Strange Peace (2017)
Ben Frost — The Centre Cannot Hold (2017)
The Breeders – All Nerve (2018)
Mono – Nowhere Now Here (2019)
Sunn O))) – Life Metal (2019)
Sunn O))) – Pyroclasts (2019)
Ty Segall & Freedom Band – Deforming Lobes (2019)
Mono – Pilgrimage of the soul (2021)
Nina Nastasia – Just Stay in Bed (2022)
