Steve Albini

Lest We Forget – TUTV’s 20 Best Albums Of 2024 – Today: No. 20

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We’re on our way, slowly but surely, to the end of 2025.
Instead of starting to think about this year’s best LPs,
let’s go back to 2024 and listen to TUTV’s 20 Best Albums
again and look back on what we wrote about each one
of them.

Today: No. 20

Band: SHELLAC (US)
Album: To All Trains
Released: 24 May 2024.
Their 6th one.


(Photo by Turn Up The Volume – Belgium 2017)

TUTV: It’s vintage Shellac/Steve Albini with its wayward song structures, its
capricious and minimalistic approach, its broken riffs, edgy hooks, sinewy
drumming, Albini‘s firm vocals and the raw and rough post-punk dynamics.

Absolutely weird to listen to this record,
knowing that the noise wizard is here no more.

He passed away on May 7 (2024), following a heart
attack. Only 10 days before the album release.
Sad loss.

ALBUM


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R.I.P.

Instagram – Bio – Albums

STEVE ALBINI Street Revealed Near His Studio In CHICAGO

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27 November 2024


Photo by Turn Up The Volume – Kortrijk, Belgium – 2017

Last May the music world was shocked when the sad news of
the sudden death of renowned producer STEVE ALBINI came
in. He died of a heart attack, only 61.

He produced so many artists/bands with Kim Deal as one
of the most recent ones. Albini produced her brand-new solo
album Nobody Loves You More.

It was so weird to see that a couple of weeks later Albini‘s band
Shellac, had their 6th LP, named TO ALL TRAINS, out. One of
the best albums of 2024 on my list.


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Yesterday, a street arrow near his Electrical Audio studio in Chicago,
renamed Steve Albini Way, was officially revealed. Kim Deal spoke
at the ceremony and the Mekons and Jeff Tweedy played some songs.

Kim Deal: “He was a flawed human; he would contradict himself in two sentences.
But at his core he understood the value of each person. Well, not each person. If you
were a bully, he wouldn’t like you at all. Maybe he stuck up for people too hard. He
wanted to stick up for the underdogs. He really didn’t like ‘winners.’ I think he liked
people with a good, healthy dose of low self esteem.”


Photo by Turn Up The Volume – Shellac, 2017

SPAIN’s PRIMAVERA SOUND FESTIVAL Names One Of The Stages After The Late STEVE ALBINI

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21 May 2024


Photo by Turn Up The Volume – Belgium, 2017

It’s still unbelievable that noise rock producer STEVE ALBINI
has passed away, two weeks ago, due to a fatal heart attack.
Unreal.

With his band SHELLAC he played for nearly two decades
at the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona, Spain.

The trio first played there in 2006. They missed the next year, but since
2008, Shellac have played every edition and would play it again this year.

The festival’s organizers have now decided to name one of the stages
after Steve Albini. Several indie artists will play it and Shellac‘s brand-new
album TO ALL TRAINS will be aired regularly.


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This year’s line-up
May 29 – June 2

Festival Website

Final Album ‘TO ALL TRAINS’ By STEVE ALBINI And His Band SHELLAC Is Out Now

Posted on by JL

17 May 2024


(Photo by Turn Up The Volume – Belgium 2017)

Two months ago renowned noise rock producer STEVE ALBINI
announced a new album with his band SHELLAC, titled TO ALL TRAINS.
Their 6th and first in 10 years.

Unfortunately Albini can’t experience the pleasure to be here today,
on the release day of the LP, as the fatal news came in, on May 7,
of his passing following a heart attack.

It wasn’t really certain if the release would go ahead or not. But here it is,
featuring his long-time, faithful friends/musicians Bob Weston (bass) and
drummer Todd Trainer.

The recordings already started in 2017 featuring several songs
the band used to play live for quite some time by then.


Album artwork

It’s vintage Shellac/Steve Albini with its wayward song structures, its capricious and minimalistic resonance, its broken riffs, edgy hooks, sinewy drumming, Albini‘s poignant vocals and the raw and rough post-punk dynamics at play. Absolutely weird to listen to
it, with the incredible knowledge that Albini is no more.

The album closes with the ominous track I Don’t Fear Hell, including these lines
“I don’t fear hell. Their baseball team is undefeated. If there’s a heaven, I hope they’re
having fun. ‘Cause if there’s a hell, I’m gonna know everyone.” Sounds quite bizarre and macabre at this very moment. Maybe, just maybe, Albini is happy, wherever he might
be. Rest in peace.

STREAM/BUY


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Shellac: Instagram

Live photos by Turn Up The Volume – Belgium 2017)

BIg Blasts From The Past – ‘1000 HURTS’ By STEVE ALBINI And His Band SHELLAC

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12 May 2024

Last Wednesday the shocking news of the passing of STEVE ALBINI came in.
The renowned, highly praised noise rock producer from Chicago died of a
heart attack, at only 61. R.I.P.

Besides his extensive work as a producer (Nirvana, Pixies, PJ Harvey, Jimmy
Page and Robert Plant and countless more) Albini had 3 bands of his own.

Big Black (1981-1987 / 2 LPs), Rapeman (1987-1989 / 1 LP)
and his best-known one Shellac (1992-2024 / 6 LPs)

It’s only 2 months ago that Albini announced a new album with Shellac,
titled To All Trains. Their 6th and first in 10 years. It is/was planned to
come out, next week, on May 17. No info yet about an eventual
delay of the release.

For now, I want to play their sharp-cutting, raw-and-rough
noise-rock album 1000 HURTS from 2000 to remember this
legend.


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It was so great to see Shellac playing live
back in 2017 in Kortijk, Belgium on one of
their rare tours.

Photos by Turn Up The Volume

Picture This – Cover Of First SHELLAC Album In 10 Years

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24 March 2024

Notorious noise-rock producer Steve Albini and his band Shellac (feat. Bob Weston,
bass/guitar/vocals and Todd Trainer, drums/vocals) announced via their social media
that they have a new album, their 6th (in 30 years), named TO ALL TRAINS waiting in
the pipeline to be released on May 17.

No music from the LP so far, but you already can memorize the tracklist.

01 “WSOD”
02 “Girl From Outside”
03 “Chick New Wave”
04 “Tattoos”
05 “Wednesday”
06 “Scrappers”
07 “Days Are Dogs”
08 “How I Wrote How I Wrote Elastic Man (cock & bull)”
09 “Scabby The Rat”
10 “I Don’t Fear Hell”


Shellac – Kortrijk, Belgium, 2017 – Photo by TUTV