Michael Azerrad comments that " by this time Big Black had both refined the ideas first suggested on Lungs and exploded them into something much huger than anyone but Albini had ever imagined ", while Mark Deming of Allmusic states that the album " upped the ante on the musical and lyrical ferocity of Big Black's previous body of work, an unrelenting assault of guitar sounds and imagined violence of all sorts.

The word " darkie " appeared in the first line of the Lungs EP, but Albini defended its use as a comical term, saying " in a way that's a play on the concept of a hateful word.

The album was recorded by Steve Albini ( who was hired by Watts-Russell on the advice of a 4AD colleague ), completed in two weeks, and released in early 1988.

It consisted of Steve Albini ( formerly of Big Black ) on guitar and vocals, David Wm.

Albini launched an extensive and successful career as a recording engineer and played bass with Flour before going on to form Shellac.

4AD gave the band an $ 11, 000 budget and recruited Steve Albini, who had worked with Deal on the Pixies ' 1988 album Surfer Rosa, to record in Edinburgh, Scotland for two weeks in December 1989.

Prior to recording with Albini, the band recorded a second session with John Peel on 22 September and recorded a version of Bob Dylan's " Highway 61 Revisited ," and two new songs " Me Jane " and " Ecstasy.

They then released the 7 inch vinyl single Baby Talk / Brontosaurus on Seattle-based indie label Sub Pop Records, which was produced by Albini.

Nielsen and Carlos were on hand to receive the award, which was presented to them by Steve Albini.

In 2004, Lightning Bolt played on the doorstep of radio DJ John Peel's chalet at noon during the All Tomorrow's Parties festival, about which neighbor Steve Albini of Shellac and Big Black commented " Best alarm clock I've ever had.

Fugazi recorded its third album In on the Kill Taker in the fall of 1992 with Steve Albini in Chicago ; however, the results were deemed unsatisfactory and the band re-recorded the album with Ted Nicely & Don Zientara.

Steve Albini is an influential musician and audio engineer whose many recording projects have exerted an important influence on independent music.

Albini has fronted the bands Big Black, Rapeman and Shellac on guitar and vocals.

* Pigface – Gub ( 1990 ) ( Albini also plays guitar, bass, and oscillator on some tracks )

Many alternative rock artists, including Billy Corgan and PJ Harvey, have cited the album as inspirational ; Nirvana's Kurt Cobain frequently acknowledged that Surfer Rosa was a strong influence on Nevermind, and in 1993 hired the album's producer Steve Albini to produce his band's album In Utero.

" and her lead vocals on " Gigantic ", Albini moved the studio equipment and recorded in a studio bathroom to achieve real, rather than studio, echo ; according to John Murphy, Deal's husband at the time, " Albini didn't like the studio sound.

The track begins at this point, with Francis explaining the conversation to Albini, whose voice is not heard on the track.

Lupfer later admitted that Albini knew " perfectly well what was going on.

Albini later observed the use of studio banter on Surfer Rosa: " It's on their record forever so I think now they are obliged to say that they're ok with it, but I honestly don't know that that idea would've ever come up if I hadn't done it.

Slint's first album Tweez was recorded by Steve Albini in 1987 and released in obscurity on the Jennifer Hartman Records label in 1989.

A version of the song Vamos would appear on Pixies ' next two releases: re-recorded with Steve Albini for their first full-length album, Surfer Rosa, and as a live B-side on their first single, Gigantic.

Albini " sorta conned " small local label Fever Records into financing the next Big Black EP, bringing in drummer Pat Byrne of Urge Overkill to play on the sessions as accompaniment to the drum machine, which they dubbed " Roland " for album credits.

Gerard Cosloy, who had befriended Albini through writing for Matter and gone on to work at Homestead, negotiated an unorthodox deal for the band: Big Black merely licensed their recordings to Homestead for specific lengths of time, rather than the label retaining the rights to the recordings as was typical.

Phair interviews, among others, Gerard Cosloy and Chris Lombardi of Matador Records, indie producer Steve Albini, Ira Glass of NPR's This American Life, John Henderson, Brad Wood, John Cusack ( who founded the Chicago avant-garde theater group New Crime Productions ) and Urge Overkill.

In late 2007 Mel presented and produced the 2nd Producer Series for Triple J, which featured: Steve Albini ( Nirvana, PJ Harvey, Joanna Newsom ), Michael Beinhorn ( Hole, Marlilyn Manson, The Bronx ), Trina Shoemaker ( Queens Of The Stoneage, Something For Kate ), Jim Abbiss ( Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian ), Tony Cohen ( Nick Cave, Beasts of Bourbon ), Squeak E Clean ( Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Ben Lee ), Ewan Pearson ( The Rapture ), Dave Catching ( Rancho De La Luna-The Desert Sessions ) Tim Whitten ( Architecture In Helsinki, The Panics ) and John Agnello ( Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth, The Living End ).

Steve Albini, a long-time friend and associate of John Loder, has described the set up at Southern Studios as being completely analogue.

William d ' Aubigny or D ' Aubeney or d ' Albini, Lord of Belvoir ( died 1 May 1236 ) was a prominent member of the baronial rebellions against King John of England.

Part of Big Black's local unpopularity stemmed from Albini and the vitriol he regularly directed at Chicago's rock scene: by 1985 the Metro Chicago was the only club in the city that was booking punk rock shows and was also large enough to accommodate Big Black, but after performing there Albini badmouthed the club in an interview and found himself banned from it permanently.

Duenow's first album " If You Could Only See What They Are Doing To You " was released independently in the latter half of 2003, using session musicians and recording with Steve Albini at his studio Electrical Audio, Danny Schaffer at 4040 studios, dave hutten at Red Squared Studios, and at the home studio of Daniel Pritzker a founding member of local resident and philanthropist Sonia Dada.

in 1990 after Albini had an argument with the label over the release of a Big Black record.

Island Records signed the trio amid a major label bidding war in mid-1992 and in December 1992, the trio travelled to Cannon Falls, Minnesota in the United States to record the follow-up to Dry with producer Steve Albini.

" The recording sessions with Albini took place at Pachyderm Recording Studio and resulted in the band's major label debut Rid of Me in May 1993.

Big Black secured a European distribution deal for their records through Blast First, a label recommended to Albini by Sonic Youth, and met enthusiastic responses to their shows on a 1986 European tour.

Though the band was receiving lucrative offers from major labels, they chose to remain independent and signed to Touch and Go Records, Albini being good friends with label head Corey Rusk.

Albini explained that the performance was " not about Big Black wanting to get back together or even an audience wanting to see Big Black, it's that ... to not honor Touch and Go would be an insult by way of damning with faint praise ", describing the label as " just a benchmark for how a record label should behave, but how people should behave.

While rumors that Albini refused to work with the band due to their involvement with a major label persisted, both Albini and the group have stated this to be false.

He recorded with Steve Albini in February 2007 for Denison's Fuzz label mate Greg Garing.

PME recorded their first single for independent record label Amoeba Records, and went on to record The White To Be Angry with producer Steve Albini.

In May 1993, Melt-Banana played a show opening for KK Null of Zeni Geva fame, who was impressed enough to immediately offer them a deal with his label, and would later introduce them to Mark Fischer of Skin Graft Records and Steve Albini.

In 1992, Failure signed with Slash Records ( an LA-based independent label whose releases were manufactured and distributed by Warner Bros. in the United States ), and went to Minnesota to record their debut album with notorious producer Steve Albini at Pachyderm Studio that summer.

The following year, the band recorded songs with producer Iain Burgess, followed by five more songs produced with Steve Albini: the resulting album Flower Plower was released in 1989 on the Limited Potential label.

Tracks for Daisychain Reaction were recorded by Steve Albini at the Chicago Recording Company in 1990, but due to financial difficulties at the label, the album was not released until the following year.

This lineup began extensive world tours, catching the eye of such noteworthy rock figures as Steve Albini, who produced their 1991 album Total Castration, and Jello Biafra, who signed them to his Alternative Tentacles record label.