Technically accomplished, sonically subversive and fiercely independent, I’ll remember Steve Albini for his rare humility
- Written by: Samantha Bennett, Professor of Music, Australian National University
Richard P J Lambert/flickr, CC BYThe future belongs to the analogue loyalists. Fuck digital.
As a tsunami of CDs, DAT tapes and samplers swept the recording industry in the late 1980s, Big Black frontman and alternative music agent provocateur Steve Albini threw down the gauntlet in defiance.
His commitment to analogue recording processes and the...
