We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design.

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Steve Albini was a 20th-century American musician and audio engineer. Steven Frank Albini was an American musician and audio engineer. He founded and fronted the influential post-hardcore and noise rock bands Big Black (1981–1987), Rapeman (1987–1989) and Shellac (1992–2024), and engineered acclaimed albums such as the Pixies' Surfer Rosa (1988), PJ Harvey's Rid of Me, Nirvana's In Utero and Manic Street Preachers' Journal for Plague Lovers (2009). Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Music — The universal language of melody, rhythm, and harmony

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