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5 days agoDigging Through Steve Albini's Closet
The late icon strapped himself into his guitar while throttling songs in Shellac and Big Black, changing how menacing a punk riff could sound. He oversaw the making of hundreds, if not thousands, of albums as an engineer and refused to take much credit-or money-for his part in the final outcome, whether it was Nirvana's In Utero or Joanna Newsom's Ys.
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