Photo: Steve Albini and Todd Trainer on stage playing, June 2001 at the Congress Theater in Chicago. Shellac was the opener on a bill with the Ex and Fugazi. Albini is caught mid-action playing guitar, his custom amps and speakers setup behind him.
I was never a Big Black fan or much of a Shellac fan (though I did get to see them twice with Fugazi). But there is a large percentage of my record collection that was either recorded by Steve Albini or produced at his studio, Electrical Audio. The man has directly and indirectly made a huge impression on my musical tastes the past 30+ years.
I wanted to call out some of the records I love that were recorded by Albini but might not have been mentioned in his obituaries:
Shannon Wright / Over the Sun
Neurosis / Honor Found in Decay
mclusky / mclusky do dallas
Electrelane / The Power Out
Godspeed You! Black Emperor / Yanqui U.X.O.
Edith Frost / Wonder, Wonder
Albini was also quite a talker, and it was always fun to listen to him on Vish Khanna's Kreative Kontrol podcast over the years, including:
Russian Circles to release new album Gnosis in August, debut new song "Conduit"; announce U.S. headlining tour
Photo by: Simon Kallas
Official press rlease:
Heavy instrumental greats Russian Circles have announced a new LP Gnosis available August 18th via Sargent House. Listen to the relentless first single “Conduit” below. Gnosis, their eighth album, eschews the varied terrain of their past works as it razes a path through the most harrowing territory of their sounds by employing a new songwriting…
hawaii part ii is a fun album if you like music that sounds like someone sampled the rapture and threw it in a synthesizer and then threw that synthesizer down the stairs
Thanks to the people in my comments and in my reblogs (I really do love y'all, continue spreading the gospel of overthinking my pretties >:3), I'm going to add something to my last post that I missed. I meant to talk about it but in my stream of consciousness typing, I forgot about it. What can I say, I'm human.
My main problem with the Milo vs Darlin situation is how it was handled with the rest of the pack. Now, Gabe was still Alpha when Milo and Sweetheart went on their little hunt which I will admit, I totally forgot about. I have to take several seconds to remember what day it is, you expect me to keep a timeline straight?
Anyway, do I believe Milo got a verbal lashing from Gabe about being an idiot. Oh absolutely. I have no doubt about that. But Milo never tells the rest of the pack about what happened. I guess it may not have been necessary but there was still a shade at an event the pack was working, it may have been nice to tell them that was the issue! Maybe Gabe did, we'll never know. But we know that Milo himself never tells them.
That's not what happens with Darlin. And that's where things get unfair.
David says "We're going to tell them together" meaning that he's making Darlin get up in front of everyone and explain the situation. Now I can't say I don't understand it. Darlin knows the situation a lot better than David, they have all the details, they know how Quinn acts. But they could've told David about the important details, they could've given him the information for him to relay. David could've handled telling the pack about Quinn that didn't blame Darlin.
Because Quinn's actions weren't Darlin's fault.
Darlin was forced to stand in front of everyone they'd known growing up and spill their mistakes and the consequences of it while still being pretty raw and vulnerable from getting out of an abusive relationship and was reprimanded by the only people they could still consider family.
And that's where I have a problem. I think David handled the situation wrong and I can't entirely blame him for it. We know David was and still is not entirely confident in his role as Alpha. He hasn't had to deal with big situations like this before and most likely acted just a little bit on emotion. He probably acted a little bit on anger or petty revenge for making him worry so much and I can't hold that against him. But it's not how he should've handled it.
It was unfair and cruel to Darlin. They shouldn't have been put in that situation. Did they deserve a bit of blame for not telling the pack that Quinn got away before they left for Washington? Yes. I'm not delusional, that was a stupid decision and they deserve what they get on that front. But everything else? No. The way Quinn reacted was not their fault and they didn't deserve to get lit into for it.
Okay I think that's everything else I needed to cover. As you can tell, this is one of those points I am deeply passionate about. But I'm gonna shut up now-
(All of this just from asking "Do you think Darlin holds a grudge against Milo for not getting treated like they did despite having the same situation?")
Too much contact, no more feeling
The sound around them all
Acid on the floor so she walk on the ceiling
And the body electric flashes on the bathroom wall
And the body electric flashes on the bathroom wall
Crawling to the corners where the idiot children call
See the body flashing on the bathroom wall