and after a few listens, thought i recognised that unique room kind of sound and i was right, it was albini -- so apart from In Utero and Attack On Memory (the album the youtube link features on)
could anyone else point me in the right direction of some good rock music with similar albini room styled tones?
oh and ofcourse feel free to post/rant about albini's infamous production techniques
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But Oh God, you haven't heard a real record until you'd listened to P.J Harvey's Rid Of Me. Albini recorded it in 1992 I believe. Apart from being a great ****ing album of great ****ing music, sonically it's also my holy grail.
Real simple, just a trio of guitar bass drums, and it's just teeming with intensity. Do it up.
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and after a few listens, thought i recognised that unique room kind of sound and i was right, it was albini -- so apart from In Utero and Attack On Memory (the album the youtube link features on)
could anyone else point me in the right direction of some good rock music with similar albini room styled tones?
oh and ofcourse feel free to post/rant about albini's infamous production techniques
Chisel. Drill. Hammer. was a band in the late 90s that Albini recorded rather well.
I Love Steve Albini but, even by his own words, he's an engineer trying to CAPTURE a band's sound and support what they do, he's not trying to change it... I have 2 friend's who've done albums with him (both bands were really happy with the outcome) but there was a lot of discussion in the studio that would go "Hey Steve, what do you think of my guitar tone" Steve: "That's what your guitar/amp sounds like, that's how you played it..." I agree with Shellac - that's probably really "his" sound.
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No one going to mention The Breeder's Pod or any of the Shellac albums? Pod in particular is a stunning album, a sort of sincerity to the songwriting that the production allows be. Many a man would have made the mistake of stuffing them full of syrupy garbage but let's, like, the space "Be", man, you know?
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Someone who never ever seems to get attention around here is Bob Weston. He plays alongside Albini in Shellac and is a huge talent as RE and ME as well. Sometimes achieves similar results as the "Albini" sound.
He recorded most of the catalog of Polvo, some of his best work. I highly recommend the album Exploded Drawing, prob my favorite album of all time, for both it's songwriting and production. And I'm not prone to hyperbole.
+1 for the my disco post! same goes for the Jesus lizard goat post! albini rules and you can absolutely tell that he is a big proponent for making a band sound how they do live. check out neurosis "times of grace" and "a sun that never sets" two phenomenal sounding recordings that are also quite sonically different.
He recorded most of the catalog of Polvo, some of his best work. I highly recommend the album Exploded Drawing, prob my favorite album of all time, for both it's songwriting and production. And I'm not prone to hyperbole.
He recorded most of the catalog of Polvo, some of his best work. I highly recommend the album Exploded Drawing, prob my favorite album of all time, for both it's songwriting and production. And I'm not prone to hyperbole.
But Oh God, you haven't heard a real record until you'd listened to P.J Harvey's Rid Of Me. Albini recorded it in 1992 I believe. Apart from being a great ****ing album of great ****ing music, sonically it's also my holy grail.
Real simple, just a trio of guitar bass drums, and it's just teeming with intensity. Do it up.
Agreed about a personal sonic holy grail, top 5 for sure. the room sound of her voice and the way the loud passages seem to bow the room when played louuuuud is craziness(great way to laugh at physics in a room with ridiculous monitoring). the vocal, the space its in! emotionally the shit ****in' slays my heart , like, 17 years later, but most of her next 3 records do that too...
I think it was recorded in the same stay at pachyderm as when he did In Utero. like, feb 1993.
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