Steve Albini discography
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Steve Albini was an American musician, audio engineer and music journalist, whose many recording projects have exerted an important influence on independent music since the 1980s. Most of his projects from 1997 onwards were recorded at the Electrical Audio studios in Chicago. Albini is occasionally credited as a record producer, though he disliked the term to describe his work, preferring the term "recording engineer" when credited, and refused to take royalties from bands recording in his studio, as he felt it would be unethical to do so.[1]
As a musician, Albini fronted the bands Big Black, Rapeman and Shellac on guitar and vocals. He also played on other projects from time to time, notably as a bass guitarist in the touring incarnation of Pete Conway's solo project Flour whose records he also engineered.
The list is in chronological order by date of release, but is incomplete.
As a musician[edit]
Just Ducky, 1979–1980 (Missoula)[edit]
Year | Release | Label | Note |
---|---|---|---|
2022 | Without Warning: Early Montana Punk, Postpunk, New Wave & Hardcore 1979-1991 | Lost Sounds Montana | "New Metro Stomp" and "Dog Food" are featured, recorded live at the Star Garage in Missoula, Montana in April 1980. |
Big Black, 1982–87[edit]
Year | Release | Label | Format | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
1982 | Lungs | Ruthless | 12" | Reissued by Touch and Go in 1992 and 2012 |
1983 | Bulldozer | Ruthless | 12" | Reissued by Touch and Go in 1993 and 2012 |
1985 | Racer-X | Homestead | 12", cassette | Reissued by Touch and Go in 1992 and 2013 |
1985 | "Rema Rema" | Forced Exposure | 7" | |
1985 | The Hammer Party | Homestead | 12", CD, cassette | Reissued by Touch and Go in 1992 |
1985 | "Il Duce" / "Big Money" | Homestead | 7" | Reissued by Touch and Go in 1992 |
1986 | Atomizer | Homestead | LP, cassette | Reissued by Touch and Go in 2015 |
1987 | Sound of Impact | Blast First | LP | |
1987 | "Heartbeat" | Touch and Go | 7" | |
1987 | Headache | Touch and Go | LP, cassette | Reissued in 2018 |
1987 | "He's a Whore" / "The Model" | Touch and Go | 7" | |
1987 | Songs About Fucking | Touch and Go | LP, CD | Reissued in 2004 and 2018 |
1988 | The Rich Man's Eight Track Tape | Homestead | CD | Reissued by Touch and Go in 2015 |
1992 | Pigpile | Touch and Go | CD, VHS | Recorded in 1987 |
Rapeman, 1987–89[edit]
Year | Release | Label | Format | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|
1988 | "Hated Chinee" / "Marmoset" | Touch and Go | 7" | |
1988 | Budd | Touch and Go | LP | Live, reissued in 2007 |
1988 | Two Nuns and a Pack Mule | Touch and Go | LP, CD, cassette | |
1989 | "Inku's Butt Crack" / "Song Number One" | Sub Pop | 7" | Singles Club release |
Shellac, 1992–2024[edit]
Year | Release | Label | Format | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|
1993 | The Rude Gesture: A Pictorial History | Touch and Go | 7" | |
1993 | Uranus | Touch and Go | 7" | |
1994 | The Bird Is the Most Popular Finger | Drag City | 7" | |
1994 | At Action Park | Touch and Go | CD, LP, cassette | |
1994 | Live at Tokyo | NUX Organization | CD | Japan-exclusive live album |
1995 | "Billiardspielerlied" / "Mantel" | Überschall | 7" | |
1997 | Split with Mule | Touch and Go | 7" | |
1997 | The Futurist | n/a | LP | Private release, given out to friends and family |
1998 | Terraform | Touch and Go | LP, CD | |
2000 | 1000 Hurts | Touch and Go | LP, CD | |
2001 | Split with Caesar | Barbaraal | 7" | |
2007 | Excellent Italian Greyhound | Touch and Go | LP, CD | |
2014 | Dude Incredible | Touch and Go | LP, CD | |
2019 | The End of Radio | Touch and Go | LP, CD | Includes recordings of their Peel Sessions in 1994 and 2004 |
2024 | To All Trains | Touch and Go | LP, CD |
Other[edit]
- Pray I Don't Kill You Faggot by Run Nigger Run (Steve Albini and Nash Kato of Urge Overkill) on Tellus, The Audio Cassette Magazine #10 - All Guitars! (compilation album, 1985)
- Nutty About Lemurs by Steve Albini (solo) on Guitarrorists (compilation album, 1991)
Credits on other artists' releases[edit]
1980s[edit]
1985[edit]
Artist | Release | Format | Label | Credit |
---|---|---|---|---|
Breaking Circus | The Very Long Fuse | LP | Homestead | Artwork |
1986[edit]
Artist | Release | Format | Label | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
Urge Overkill | Strange, I... | LP | Ruthless | Producer, credited as The Li'l Weed |
Dark Arts | A Long Way From Brigadoon | LP | Ruthless | Artwork |
Naked Raygun | All Rise | LP, CD | Homestead | Artwork |
1988[edit]
Artist | Release | Format | Label | Credit |
---|---|---|---|---|
Pixies | Surfer Rosa | LP, CD, cassette | 4AD | Producer, engineer |
Head of David | Dustbowl | LP, CD | Blast First | Producer, credited as Steven Albini |
Savage Pencil | Angel Dust (Music for Movie Bikers) | LP | Blast First | Liner notes |
Gore | Wrede- The Cruel Peace | LP, CD | Megadisc | Producer |
Various Artists | The End of Music (As We Know It) | LP, CD, cassette | ROIR/Danceteria | Liner notes, producer |
Pussy Galore/Black Snakes | Split | 7" | Supernatural Organization | Producer |
Bitch Magnet | Star Booty | LP | Roman Candle | Producer |
Flour | Flour | LP | Touch and Go | Engineer |
The Membranes | Kiss Ass... Godhead! | LP, CD, cassette | Homestead | Recording engineer |
1989[edit]
Artist | Release | Format | Label | Credit |
---|---|---|---|---|
Killdozer | For Ladies Only | 7" | Touch and Go | Liner notes |
Band of Susans | Love Agenda | CD | Torso/EFA/Blast First/Mute | Recording engineer |
Tar | Handsome | LP | Amphetamine Reptile | Engineer |
Wreck | Wreck | LP | Play It Again Sam | Producer |
The Jesus Lizard | Pure | LP, cassette | Touch and Go | Producer |
Tad | "Wood Goblins" b/w "Cooking with Gas" plus "Daisy" | LP | Glitterhouse | Recording engineer |
Theweddingpresent | Brassneck | LP, CD, cassette | RCA | Recording engineer |
The Wedding Present | Bizzaro | LP, CD, cassette | RCA | Engineer |
Ut | Griller | LP, CD | Blast First | Engineer |
Poster Children | Flower Plower | LP, CD, cassette | Limited Potential | Producer |
Sixteen Tons | 4 Songs 16 Tons | 7" | No Blow | Engineer, credited as S. Albini |
Boss Hog | Drinkin', Lechin' & Lyin' | LP, CD, cassette | Amphetamine Reptile | Recording engineer |
Pussy Galore | Dial 'M' for Motherfucker | LP, CD | Caroline Records | Producer |
Flea Circus | Slingshot | Cassette | n/a | Producer, recording engineer |
Slint | Tweez | LP, CD, cassette | Jennifer Hartman Records | Engineer, credited as "some fuckin' derd niffer" |
1990s[edit]
1990[edit]
Artist | Release | Format | Label | Credit |
---|---|---|---|---|
The Breeders | Pod | LP, CD, cassette | RCA | Engineer |
Boss Hog | Cold Hands | LP, CD, cassette | Amphetamine Reptile | Recording engineer, mixer |
Flour | Luv 713 | LP, CD, cassette | Touch and Go | Engineer |
Sixteen Tons | Headshot | LP, CD | Abstract Sounds | Producer |
The Jesus Lizard | Head | LP, cassette | Touch and Go | Engineer, producer |
Tad | Salt Lick/God's Balls | LP, CD | Sub Pop | Producer |
Whitehouse | Thank Your Lucky Stars | LP, CD | Susan Lawly | Producer, credited as S. Albini |
Whitehouse | Cream of the Second Coming | LP, CD | Susan Lawly | Producer, credited as S. Albini |
Wreck | Soul Train | LP, CD, cassette | Play It Again Sam | Producer |
Pigface | Gub | LP, CD, cassette | Invisible | Engineer |
Hum | Is Like Kissing An Angel (She Said) | Cassette | n/a | Recording engineer |
Various Artists | Rubáiyát (Elektra's 40th Anniversary) | LP, CD | Elektra | Engineer |
Tar | Roundhouse | CD | Amphetamine Reptile | Engineer |
Mass | "Pulling/Thinking" | 7" | No Blow | Remixer |
Sludgeworth | "Sludgeworth" | 7" | Roadkill | Producer |
Theweddingpresent | 3 Songs | LP, 7", CD, cassette | RCA | Engineer |
Big Trouble House | "Watered Down" | 7" | Community 3 | Engineer |
Masters of the Obvious | "She's Not Ready" | 7" | Feel Good All Over | Producer |
Poster Children | "Thinner, Stronger" b/w "Pointed Stick" | 7" | Sub Pop | Producer |
Bitch Magnet | Ben Hur | LP, CD, cassette | Glitterhouse | Recording engineer, credited as Arden Geist |
1991[edit]
Artist | Release | Format | Label | Credit |
---|---|---|---|---|
Cath Carroll | England Made Me | LP, CD, cassette | Fantasy | Guitar |
Whitehouse | Another Crack of the White Whip | CD | Susan Lawly | Writer |
Whitehouse | "Still Going Strong" | 7" | Susan Lawly | Writer |
Chris Connelly | Whiplash Boychild | CD, cassette | Wax Trax! | Assistant engineer, guitar |
The Jesus Lizard | Goat | LP, CD, cassette | Touch and Go | Producer |
Poster Children | Daisychain Reaction | LP, CD, cassette | Twin/Tone | Engineer |
Wreck | House of Boris | LP, CD, cassette | Wax Trax! | Producer |
Theweddingpresent | "Dalliance" | 7", CD, cassette | RCA | Engineer |
Theweddingpresent | "Lovenest" | LP, CD | RCA | Engineer |
Cheer-Accident | Dumb Ask | CD, cassette | Complacency | Engineer |
Scrawl | Bloodsucker | LP, CD, cassette | Simple Machines | Recording engineer |
Cheeze TM | Dancing with the Dead | 7" | Bob Records | Engineer |
Bewitched | Harshing My Mellow | CD, cassette | No. 6 | Recording engineer |
Sandy Duncan's Eye | Sandy Duncan's Eye | CD | Flipside | Recording engineer |
Zeni Geva | Total Castration | CD | Public Bath | Engineer |
Sometime Sweet Susan | Collide | LP | 5th & National | Producer, engineer |
Naked Vanilla | Wooly Metal | Cassette | n/a | Engineer |
Dolomite | Venus | 7" | Fiasco | Recording engineer, credited as Steve |
The Didjits | Full Nelson Reilly | LP, CD, cassette | Touch and Go | Credited as Reggie Stiggs |
The Wedding Present | Seamonsters | LP, CD | RCA | Engineer |
The Mark of Cain | Incoming | CD | Dominator | Engineer |
Superchunk | No Pocky for Kitty | LP, CD, cassette | Matador | Uncredited |
Tar | Jackson | LP, CD, cassette | Amphetamine Reptile | |
Volcano Suns | Career in Rock | LP, CD, cassette | Quarterstick | Recording engineer, credited as Torso Man |
Urge Overkill | The Supersonic Storybook | LP, CD, cassette | Touch and Go | Uncredited |
1992[edit]
Artist | Release | Format | Label | Credit |
---|---|---|---|---|
Things That Fall Down | Disbelief | LP, CD, cassette | Sonic Noise | Engineer |
Various Artists | Follow Our Trax, Vol. 8: Another Disc, Another Planet | CD | Reprise | |
Bewitched | Harshing My Mellow | CD, cassette | No.6 | Recording engineer |
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion | The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion | LP, CD, cassette | Caroline | Recording engineer |
The Jesus Lizard | Liar | LP, CD, cassette | Touch and Go | Uncredited |
Helmet | Meantime (song "In The Meantime" recorded by Albini; mixed by Andy Wallace) | LP, CD, cassette | Interscope | Recording engineer |
Mule | Mule | LP, CD, cassette | Quarterstick | credited as "Lenard Johns" |
Thrillhammer | Giftless | LP, CD | Rough Trade | Recording engineer, credited as "Albini-San" |
Failure | Comfort | LP, CD, cassette | Slash | Engineer |
Braindamage | Signal de Revolta | CD | G.L.C. | Mixer |
Zeni Geva | Nai-Ha | LP, CD | Nipp Guitar | Producer, engineer, guitar |
Murder, Inc. | Murder, Inc. | LP, CD, cassette | Invisible | Recording engineer |
Crain | Speed | LP, cassette | Automatic Wreckords | Recording engineer |
Union Carbide Productions | Swing | CD, cassette | Radium 226.05 | Producer, Recording engineer |
Whitehouse | Twice Is Not Enough (track "Neronia" only; co-produced with William Bennett) | CD | Susan Lawly | Producer, engineer |
Dazzling Killmen | Dig Out The Switch | LP, CD | Intellectual Convulsion | Recording engineer |
Distorted Pony | Punishment Room | LP, CD | Bomp! | Producer, Recording engineer, credited as "bespectacled wisp of a fellow from the midwest" |
Fugazi | In on the Kill Taker | Unreleased | N/A | Recording engineer, unofficial recording only, band chose to go with different producers for official release |
Peter Sotos | Buyer's Market | CD | AWB | Producer |
1993[edit]
Artist | Release | Format | Label | Credit |
---|---|---|---|---|
Murder Inc. | Murder Inc. | CD | Futurist | Recording engineer |
Helmet | Meantime | CD | Interscope | Recording engineer |
Theweddingpresent | Hit Parade 3 | CD, cassette | RCA | Producer |
Big Boys | The Fat Elvis | CD | ||
Dazzling Killmen | "Medicine Me" | 7" | ||
Blues Explosion | Crypt-Style | CD | Crypt | |
Various Artists | The Beavis and Butthead Experience | CD, LP, cassette | Geffen | |
Shorty | "Kaput!" | 7" | Skin Graft | |
Crow | My Kind of Pain | |||
Engine Kid | Bear Catching Fish | Producer, uncredited | ||
Craw | Craw | Producer, uncredited | ||
Don Caballero | "Our Caballero" b/w "My Ten Year Old Lady Is Giving It Away" | 7" | Producer, a-side only, uncredited | |
Don Caballero | "Andandandandandandandand" b/w "First Hits" | Producer, uncredited | ||
Don Caballero | For Respect | Producer, uncredited | ||
Screeching Weasel/Pink Lincolns | Split | Engineer, credited as A Skinny Bespectacled Guy | ||
PJ Harvey | Rid of Me | Recording engineer, all but one song | ||
Jawbreaker | 24 Hour Revenge Therapy | Producer, credited as "Fluss" | ||
Nirvana | In Utero | CD, LP, cassette | DGC | Producer, mixer, engineer |
Nirvana | "Heart-Shaped Box" | CD, 7", cassette | Geffen | |
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet | Sport Fishin': The Lure of the Bait, The Luck of the Hook | CD, LP, cassette | Quarterstick | Recording engineer |
King Cobb Steelie | n/a | Unofficial recording only, band chose to go with different producer | ||
Shorty | "Thumb Days" | Mixer, credited as "Albhienni" | ||
Urbn DK | Denial | Uncredited on release | ||
Usherhouse | Molting | |||
Zeni Geva | Desire for Agony | |||
Zeni Geva | Autofuck | 7" | ||
Zeni Geva | Alright You Little Bastards | Guitar | ||
Various Artists | 1993 Mercury Music Prize: Shortlist Sampler | |||
Various Artists | The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience | |||
Various Artists | Whip |
1994[edit]
Artist | Release | Format | Label | Credit |
---|---|---|---|---|
Big'n | Cutthroat | Credited as Buck Naked | ||
Red Krayola | The Red Krayola | Uncredited on album | ||
Slint | untitled | Uncredited on album | ||
Space Streakings | 7-Toku | Mixer | ||
Dazzling Killmen | Face of Collapse | |||
Whitehouse | Halogen | Co-producer with William Bennett | ||
Silkworm | In the West | |||
Various Artists | Insurgent Country, Vol. 1: For a Life of Sin | |||
Silkworm | Libertine | |||
The Jesus Lizard | Down | |||
Melt-Banana | Speak Squeak Creak | |||
Craw | Lost Nation Road | |||
Craw | My Kind of Pain | |||
Mule | "If I Don't Six" | |||
Morsel | Noise Floor | |||
Brise-Glace | When In Vanitas | Uncredited on release | ||
Brise-Glace | "In Sisters All and Felony" | 7" | ||
Various Artists | You Got Lucky: Tom Petty Tribute | |||
Six Finger Satellite | Machine Cuisine | |||
johnboy | Claim Dedications | |||
Breadwinner | Burner | |||
Souls | tjitchhischtsiy | |||
The Lizard Train | Everything Moves | |||
The Lizard Train | Inertia | |||
Mo Fuzz | The Great Unwashed | Uncredited on release |
1995[edit]
- Uzeda – 4
- Faucet – Bleeding Head
- Lizard Music – Fashionably Lame
- Zeni Geva – Freedom Bondage
- Killdozer – God Hears Pleas of the Innocent
- Various Artists – Homage: Lots of Bands Doing Descendents's Songs
- Gaunt – I Can See Your Mom From Here
- Superchunk – Incidental Music 1991–95
- Various Artists – Insurgent Country, Vol. 2: Hell-Bent
- Screeching Weasel – Kill the Musicians
- 18th Dye – Tribute to a Bus
- The Fleshtones – Laboratory of Sound
- Martians – Low Budget Stunt King
- Various Artists – A Means to an End: The Music of Joy Division
- Gastr del Sol – Mirror Repair EP
- Tar – Over and Out
- The Amps – Pacer (Not credited, not all songs)
- Sloy – Plug
- Man or Astro-man? – Project Infinity
- Whitehouse – Quality Time (co-produced with William Bennett)
- Tony Conrad – Slapping Pythagoras
- Palace Music – Viva Last Blues
- Oxbow – Let Me Be a Woman (recorded 1993)
- Yona-Kit – Yona-Kit
- Melt-Banana – Scratch or Stitch
- Thrush Hermit – The Great Pacific Ocean
- Galaxy Of Mailbox Whores – West To Solve Crimes (credited as Fluss)
1996[edit]
- The Auteurs – After Murder Park
- Laurels – L
- Palace Music – Arise Therefore
- Oxbow – Serenade in Red (European release)
- Rosa Mota – Bionic
- Robbie Fulks – Country Love Songs
- Big'n – Discipline Through Sound (credited as "Inibla Nevets")
- Silkworm – Firewater
- Bodychoke – Five Prostitutes
- A Minor Forest – Flemish Altruism (Constituent Parts 1993–1996) (even numbered tracks)
- Phono-Comb – Fresh Gasoline
- Brainiac – Hissing Prigs in Static Couture
- Dis- – Historically Troubled Third Album
- Splendorbin – Stealth
- Stinking Lizaveta – Hopelessness & Shame
- Various Artists – In Defense of Animals, Vol. 2
- The Union – In Terminus GA, 1997 (some vocals recorded and some songs mixed by David Barbe)
- Various Artists – Jabberjaw Compilation, Vol. 2: Pure Sweet Hell
- Fred Schneider – Just Fred
- Smog – Kicking a Couple Around EP
- Mandingo – Macho Grande
- Cheer-Accident – Not a Food
- Ativin – Pills vs. Planes
- Sloy – Planet of Tubes
- Bush – Razorblade Suitcase
- Dazzling Killmen – Recuerda (three songs only)
- The Mark of Cain – Rock & Roll
- Various Artists – Shots in the Dark
- Nirvana – Singles
- Shakuhachi Surprise – Space Streakings Sighted Over Mount Shasta
- Les Thugs – Strike
- Bush – "Swallowed" single
- Hubcap – Those Kids Are Weirder
- Low – Transmission EP (Albini also contributed some illustrations)
- Scrawl – Travel On, Rider
- Guided by Voices – Under the Bushes Under the Stars (two songs only, credited as "Fluss")
- Vent 414 – Vent 414
- Killdozer & Ritual Device – When the Levee Breaks
- Veruca Salt – Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt
- Burning Witch – Towers...
- Wuhling – Extra 6
- Cord – Easy Living On 101
1997[edit]
- Souls – Bird fish or inbetween
- Bokomolech – Jet Lag, LP
- Cheap Trick – "Baby Talk" b/w "Brontosaurus" single
- Cheap Trick – unreleased re-recording of In Color
- Craw – Map, Monitor, Surge
- Darling Little Jackhammer – Criminally Easy To Please
- Ein Heit – Lightning and the Sun
- Great Unraveling – Great Unraveling
- Oxbow – Serenade in Red (US release; recorded 1996)
- Pegboy – Cha Cha Damore
- Pixies – Death to the Pixies
- P. W. Long's Reelfoot – We Didn't See You on Sunday
- Silkworm – Developer
- Solar Race – Homespun
- Spider Virus – Electric Erection
- Storm & Stress – Storm & Stress
- Various Artists – Guide to Fast Living, Vol. 2
- Various Artists – The Jackal
- Dianogah– As Seen from Above
- La Gritona – Arrasa Con Todo (1997)
1998[edit]
- Pansy Division – Absurd Pop Song Romance
- Pedro, Muriel & Esther – The White To Be Angry
- Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Acme
- Ballydowse – The Land, The Bread, And The People
- Young Dubliners – Alive Alive O
- Silver Apples – Beacon
- Uzeda – Different Section Wires
- Silkworm – Even a Blind Chicken Finds a Kernel of Corn: 1990–1994
- Eclectics – Idle Worship
- Will Oldham – Little Joya
- Pansy Division – More Lovin' from Our Oven
- Plush – More You Becomes You
- Whitehouse – Mummy and Daddy (track "Private" only)
- Dirty Three – Ocean Songs
- The Sadies – Precious Moments
- Various Artists – Smash Your Radio: Jump Up! Sampler
- Bert – Bert (Pinebox Records)
- Cordelia's Dad – Spine
- The Ex – Starters Alternators
- The Traitors – Traitors
- Dirty Three – Ufkuko
- Joel RL Phelps and the Downer Trio – 3
- Jimmy Page & Robert Plant – Walking into Clarksdale
- Mount Shasta – Watch Out (credited as "Debbie Albini")
- Vandal X – Songs from the Heart
- Bedhead – Transaction de Novo
- .22 – Watertown EP
1999[edit]
- Teenage Frames – 1% Faster
- Fun People – The Art(e) of Romance
- Chisel Drill Hammer – Chisel Drill Hammer
- Early Lines – Are Tired Beasts
- Filibuster – Deadly Hifi
- Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Emergency Call from Japan
- Neurosis – Times of Grace
- The Bollweevils – History of the Bollweevils, Vol. 2
- Distortion Felix – I'm an Athlete
- Ensimi – BMX
- Murder, Inc. – Locate Subvert Terminate: The Complete Murder Inc.
- Nina Nastasia – Dogs (re-released 2004)
- Neutrino – Motion Picture Soundtrack
- Chevelle – Point #1
- Various Artists – Poor Little Knitter on the Road: A Tribute to the Kni
- The Sadies – Pure Diamond Gold
- Low – Secret Name
- Don Caballero – Singles Breaking Up (Vol. 1) (uncredited, five songs only)
- Ativin – Summing the Approach
- Pezz – Warmth & Sincerity
- Hosemobile – What Can & Can't Go On
- Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Xtra Acme USA (seven songs only)
- Dragbody – Flip The Kill Switch
- New Brutalism – A Diagram Without Scale Or Dimension
- Pugs – Chimato Kubiki
2000s[edit]
2000[edit]
- Will Oldham & Rian Murphy – All Most Heaven
- Various Artists – Best Anthems... Ever!
- Cinerama – Disco Volante
- Don Caballero – American Don (credited only as "the proprietor" of Electrical Audio)
- Silkworm – Lifestyle
- Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – "Magical Colours" b/w "Confused" single
- Shannon Wright – Maps of Tacit
- Neurosis – Sovereign
- Man or Astro-man? – A Spectrum of Infinite Scale
- Flogging Molly – Swagger
- The Bomb – Torch Songs
- Caesar – Leaving Sparks
- Robbie Fulks – Very Best of Robbie Fulks
- Destro 1 – Start the whole mechanical sequence
- Dianogah – Battle Champions
- High Dependency Unit – Fire Works
- xbxrx - Gop Ist Minee
2001[edit]
- Early Lines – Hate the Living, Love the Dead
- Zeni Geva – 10,000 Light Years
- Robbie Fulks – 13 Hillbilly Giants
- The Bottletones – Adult Time
- Meat Joy – Between the Devil and the Deep
- Robbie Fulks – Couples in Trouble
- Whitehouse – Cruise (track "Public" only)
- Joan of Arse – Distant Hearts, a Little Closer
- The Ex – Dizzy Spells
- Shannon Wright – Dyed in the Wool
- The Traitors – Everything Went Shit: Lost and Collected Tracks
- Ballydowse – Out Of The Fertile Crescent
- Danielson Famile – Fetch the Compass Kids
- Labradford – Fixed::Context
- Cinerama – "Health and Efficiency"
- Double Life – III Song EP
- XBXRX – Gop Ist Minee
- Chestnut Station – In Your Living Room
- Mogwai – "My Father My King"
- The New Year – Newness Ends
- Owls – Owls
- Hero of a Hundred Fights – The Remote, the Cold
- Various Artists – Rough Trade Shops: 25 Years
- Neurosis – A Sun That Never Sets
- Low – Things We Lost in the Fire
- Sonna – We Sing Loud Sing Soft Tonight
- Edith Frost – Wonder Wonder
- Point 22 – Worker
- Loraxx – Yellville
- Rye Coalition – ZZ Topless/Snowjob
- Honey for Petzi – Heal All Monsters
- fra-foa – chuuno-fuchi (three songs only)
- The Black Lungs (Michigan band, not the Canadian band of the same name) – unreleased album
- Technician – Opposition EP
- The Frames – For The Birds
- Saturnine – Pleasure of Ruins
2002[edit]
- Various Artists – All Tomorrow's Parties 2.0: Shellac Curated
- Glen Meadmore – Cowboy Songs for Little Hustlers
- Nina Nastasia – The Blackened Air
- Flogging Molly – Drunken Lullabies
- Jawbreaker – Etc.
- Plush – Fed
- Goatsnake/Burning Witch – Goatsnake/Burning Witch
- Silkworm – Italian Platinum
- Giddy Motors – Make It Pop
- Mclusky – Mclusky Do Dallas
- Various Artists – Membranaphonics
- Rye Coalition – On Top
- Portastatic – Perfect Little Door
- Milemarker – Satanic Versus
- The Quarterhorse – I was on fire for you
- Bellini – Snowing Sun
- Sonic Mook Experiment – Sonic Mook Experiment 2: Future Rock & Roll
- Beachbuggy – Sport Fury
- The Ghost – This Is a Hospital
- Bloodlet – Three Humid Nights in the Cypress Trees
- Vermillion – Flattening Mountains and Creating Empires
- The Breeders – Title TK
- Cinerama – Torino
- Cordelia's Dad – What It Is
- Adrian Crowley – When You Are Here You Are Family
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Yanqui U.X.O.
- 54-71 – enClorox
- Zu – Igneo
- Dionysos – Western sous la neige
- Dead Man Ray – Cago
- Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Plastic Fang
- Nirvana – Nirvana (recorded four songs)
- Brick Layer Cake – Whatchamacallit
2003[edit]
- Sylvan – The Ugly Lemon
- Early Lines – Pure Health
- Subersive – Antihero
- Cinerama – Cinerama Holiday
- Ring, Cicada – Good Morning Mr. Good
- The Heavils – Heavils
- Original Score – Hell House
- Scout Niblett – I Am
- Valina – Vagabond
- The Forms – Icarus
- Duenow – If You Could Only See What They Are Doing to You
- Cheer-Accident – Introducing Lemon
- Songs: Ohia – The Magnolia Electric Co.
- Pepito – Migrante
- Dysrhythmia – Pretest
- The Frames – The Roads Outgrown
- Nina Nastasia – Run to Ruin
- Sonna – Smile and the World Smiles with You
- Cheap Trick – Special One
- The Desert Fathers – Spirituality
- F-Minus – Sweating Blood
- Transit Belle – Transit Belle
- F-Minus – Wake Up Screaming
- Rope – Widow's First Dawn
- Various Artists – Wig in a Box
- Federation X – X Patriot
- Purplene – Purplene
- The Hidden – Hymnal EP
- Red Swan – Michigan Blood Games
- 12Twelve – Speritismo
- Chevreuil – Chateauvallon
- Whitehouse – Bird Seed (title track only)
- A Whisper in the Noise – Through the Ides of March
- Berkeley – Hopes, Prayers and Bubblegum
- Three Second Kiss – Music out of Music
- Uncommonmenfrommars – Kill the Fuze
2004[edit]
- yourcodenameis:milo – All Roads to Fault
- Living Things – Black Skies in Broad Daylight
- mclusky – The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not on Fire
- Neurosis – The Eye of Every Storm
- Bear Claw – Find The Sun
- Leftöver Crack – Fuck World Trade
- Various Artists – How Soon Is Now?: The Songs of the Smiths By...
- Living Things – I Owe
- Silkworm – It'll Be Cool
- Haymarket Riot – Mog
- Various Artists – Neurot Recordings
- Various Artists – No Depression: What It Sounds Like, Vol. 1
- Shannon Wright – Over the Sun
- 0.22 – Patriots
- Electrelane – The Power Out
- Various Artists – TRR50: Thank You
- The Ex – Turn
- Amber – Putting All the Pieces Together
- La Habitación Roja – Nuevos Tiempos
- Plush – Underfed
- Helmet – Unsung: The Best of Helmet (1991–1997)
- Scout Niblett – Uptown Top Ranking
- Mono – Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined
- Pixies – Wave of Mutilation: Best of Pixies
- Saeta – We Are Waiting All for Hope
- Chauncey – My Radio (Everything I Know)
- Nirvana – With the Lights Out
- Wrangler Brutes – Zulu
- Bright Channel – Bright Channel
- Phillip Roebuck – One-man band
- Senator – United Wire
- Father Divine – The Paradigm Shift
- The New Year - The End Is Near
2005[edit]
- Living Things – Ahead of the Lions
- BANG sugar BANG – Victory Gin
- Electrelane – Axes
- Kash – Beauty Is Everywhere/Kash
- High on Fire – Blessed Black Wings
- Terry Stamp – Bootlace Johnnie & The Ninety-Nines
- The Ponys – Celebration Castle
- Gogol Bordello – East Infection
- The Hidden – Smash to Ashes
- Gogol Bordello – Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike
- Wonderful Smith – Hello, It's Wonderful
- Jaks – Here Lies the Body of Jaks
- Scout Niblett – Kidnapped by Neptune
- The Patsys – On The 13th Kick
- Make Believe – Shock of Being
- Bellini – Small Stones
- Magnolia Electric Co – What Comes After the Blues
- Cinerama – Don't Touch That Dial
- Spy – Spy
- From Fiction – Bloodwork
- Boxes – Bad Blood
- Die! Die! Die! – Die! Die! Die!
- Loraxx – Selfs
2006[edit]
- This Moment in Black History – It Takes a Nation of Assholes to Hold Us Back
- Jinx Titanic – Stuporstardom!
- The Cape May – Glass Mountain Roads
- Cougars – Pillow Talk
- Sparrklejet – Beyond the Beyond
- Two Minute Warning – Short Stories On Super-Eight
- Mise en Place – Innit
- Mono – You Are There
- New Grenada – Modern Problems
- Zao – The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here
- Joanna Newsom – Ys
- 12Twelve – L'Univers
- Nina Nastasia – On Leaving
- The Time Of The Assassins – Awake In Slumberland
- The Hidden – Winged Wolves
- Made Out of Babies – Coward
- Marty Casey and Lovehammers – Marty Casey and Lovehammers
- Cheap Trick – Rockford
- Born Again Floozies – 7 Deadly Sinners
- Living Things – "Bom Bom Bom"
- Chevreuil – (((Capoëira)))
- Chevreuil – Science
- The Sadies – Live Vol.1
- Gasoline Heart – You Know Who You Are
- Phillip Roebuck – Fever Pitch
- Uzeda – Stella
- Childproof – Original Copy
2007[edit]
- Second Echo
- The Stooges – The Weirdness
- Fun – Zu-Pa!
- Orchid Trip – Orchid Trip
- Alamos – Captain Indifferent says, "Whatever"
- Chingalera – In the Shadow of the Black Palm Tree
- Moutheater – Lot Lizard
- stuffy/the fuses – Angels Are Ace
- Hot Little Rocket – How to Lose Everything
- Weedeater – God Luck and Good Speed
- A Whisper In The Noise – Dry Land
- Nina Nastasia & Jim White – You Follow Me
- The Conformists – Three Hundred
- Om – Pilgrimage
- Valina – a tempo! a tempo!
- Scout Niblett – This Fool Can Die Now
- The Judas Goats – Cold Creases E.P.
- The Forms – st
- Stinking Lizaveta – Scream of the Iron Iconoclast
- Phonovectra – Too Young To Die
- Neurosis – Given to the Rising
- Bear Claw – Slow Speed: Deep Owls
2008[edit]
- Aloke – I Moved Here to Live
- Esquimaux – Tiger
- The Breeders – Mountain Battles
- My Disco – Paradise
- Over Vert – Gagging and Swallowing
- Popular Workshop – We're Alive And We're Not Alone
- Scott Weiland – "Happy" in Galoshes
- The Pale Figures – Memphis and Chicago
- Nations Of Fire – If It Swings, We've Got It!
- Room 101 – The Pitch
- Trash Talk – Trash Talk
- ALiX – Good 1
- The Wedding Present – El Rey
- Haymarket Riot – Endless Bummer
- 54-71 – I'm not fine thank you, and you?
- Three second kiss – Long Distance Runner
- Vitamin X – Full Scale Assault
- Ranheim – I Don't Like The Smiths EP
- Ranheim – Norwegian Wood
- Precore – Sick
- Born Again Floozies – street music, 13 Rebellions and a Song of Consolation
- The Provocative Whites – EVOLYM (released April 2009)
- The New Year - The New Year
2009[edit]
- Mono – Hymn to the Immortal Wind
- Manic Street Preachers – Journal for Plague Lovers
- Umphrey's McGee – Mantis
- Stella Peel – Stella Peel
- Jarvis Cocker – Further Complications
- Minto – Lay It On Me
- Delby L – Nine Skies
- The Thing – Bag It!
- PRE – Hope Freaks
- Magnolia Electric Co. – Josephine
- Drug Mountain – Drug Mountain
- Motorpsycho – Child of the Future
- Berri Txarrak – Payola
- Om – God Is Good
- Pixies – Minotaur (box set of Pixies previous albums)
- Tunica Dartos – Sound Buffet (released January 2011)
- Årabrot – The Brother Seed
- Kingskin – Slug
- Leila Adu – Dark Joan
- The Marder – Men's Ruin EP
- Sparklehorse – Bird Machine
- Anni Rossi — Rockwell
2010s[edit]
2010[edit]
- Brent Newman & The Broken Arrows – Before The Revolution
- Scout Niblett – The Calcination of Scout Niblett
- Bella Clava – The Craic
- The Ex – Catch My Shoe
- Nina Nastasia – Outlaster
- The Bats Pajamas – The Bats Pajamas
- Grandfather – Why I'd Try
- My Disco – Little Joy
- The Conformists – None Hundred
- Avitia – Windowsmashers and Safecrackers
- Ferocious Fucking Teeth – Ferocious Fucking Teeth
- Tubelord – Tezcatlipōca
- Old Man Lady Luck
2011[edit]
- The Gary – El Camino
- Let's Wrestle – Nursing Home
- Senium – Such Progress
- Azimyth – Azimyth
- Bear Claw – Refuse This Gift
- The Crooked Fiddle Band – Overgrown Tales
- Sleepwalks – The Milk Has Gone Sour (recording engineer, credited as Stevo)
- Joan of Arc – Life Like
- Monotonix – Not Yet (album)
- Weedeater – Jason...The Dragon
- Candelilla – Heart Mutter (released February 2013)
- Ghosts in the Valley – Clockpunchers (released May 2012)
2012[edit]
- We Are Knuckle Dragger – Tit for Tat
- Cloud Nothings – Attack on Memory
- China – Pussy LP
- The Cribs – In The Belly of the Brazen Bull
- Screaming Females – Ugly
- Younger – TBA
- A Banquet – Breath
- Teeth – The Strain
- Cold Fur (ex Rye Coalition & The Want) – Altamont Every Night
- Colin Tyler – Live From Studio A
- Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – Now Here's My Plan (EP)
- Ominous Black – Self titled (EP)
- Thom Bowden – TBA
- Neurosis – Honor Found in Decay
- Vitamin X – About To Crack
- Hugh Cornwell – Totem And Taboo
- Thinning the Herd – Freedom From the Known
- Alexi Martov – Scent of a Wolf
- Joe 4 – Njegov Sin[2]
2013[edit]
- Man or Astro-man? – Defcon 5 4 3 2 1
- Goddard – 10-inch (with Giraffes? Giraffes!)
- The Crooked Fiddle Band – Moving Pieces Of The Sea
- Saything – Nonsense
- The Seething Coast – Olympia
- STNNNG – Empire Inward
- Robert Rolfe Feddersen – American Loser
- The New Trust – Keep Dreaming
- Barb Wire Dolls – Slit
- P.K.14 – 1984
2014[edit]
- Brent Newman & The Broken Arrows – Hot Blood
- Blind Butcher – Albino
- D3AD BY MONDAY – Memento Mori
- Captain Blood – Captain Blood
- Esben and the Witch – A New Nature
- Foxy Shazam – Gonzo
- Screaming Females – Live at the Hideout
- Valina – Container
2015[edit]
- Conduct – Fear and Desire
- Raketkanon – RKTKN#2
- KEN mode – Success
- WOMPS – Live a Little Less/Dreams on Demand
- Steve Taylor and the Danielson Foil – Wow to the Deadness
- Weedeater – Goliathan
- Screaming Females – Rose Mountain
- Subsurfer – La La La
- Hex Horizontal– Electric Fence
- Yonatan Gat – Physical Copy
- Sterling Witt - Satyagraha
2016[edit]
- Alpha Strategy – Drink the Brine, Get Scarce
- Womps – Our fertile forever
- Cocaine Piss – Sex Weirdos 7-inch
- Cocaine Piss – The Dancer
- Valina – In Position
- Peter Squires – When I Couldn't Move
- Robbie Fulks – Upland Stories
- Neurosis – Fires Within Fires
- The Conformists – Divorce
- Karabas Barabas – Return of the Sexy Demon
- Kapitan Korsakov – Physical Violence is the Least of My Priorities
- Vomitface – Hooray for Me
- Descartes a Kant – Victims Of Love Propaganda
- Malojian – This Is Nowhere
- Mono – Requiem For Hell
- Dazzling Killmen – Face of Collapse: Special Edition (25th Anniversary reissue)
- Chris Cobilis (performed by Spektral Quartet and Kenneth Goldsmith) – This Is You
- Sex Snobs – Emotional Stuffing
- KEN mode – Nerve (ep) track 1–4
2017[edit]
- Ty Segall – Ty Segall
- Meat Wave – The Incessant
- The Oxford Coma – Everything Out of Tune[3]
- STNNNG – Veterans of Pleasure
- The Cribs -24–7 Rock Star Shit
- Descartes a Kant– Victims Of Love Propaganda
- METZ – Strange Peace
- Andy Pratt — Horizon Disrupted[4]
- Ben Frost — The Centre Cannot Hold
- The Wedding Present – George Best (20th anniversary re-recording. Recorded in 2007 but not released until 2017)
- The New Year - Snow
2018[edit]
- The Breeders – All Nerve
- Spare Snare – Sounds Recorded by Steve Albini
- Signal the Launch – Dance Like a Vampire
- Elias Black – Reclamation
- GEZAN — Silence Will Speak[5]
- Super Unison – Stella
- Alpha Strategy – The Gurgler
- Meat Wave – The Incessant
- Andy Pratt – Further Disruption (EP)[6]
- Control Group – It's the year 2000!
2019[edit]
- Fastriser – Type III
- Mono – Nowhere Now Here
- Sunn O))) – Life Metal
- Sunn O))) – Pyroclasts
- Triliteral – Flying Snake's Claw
- Frank Iero and the Future Violents – Barriers
- Doblecapa – La Felpa
- Uzeda – Quocumque jeceris stabit
- Décibelles – Rock Français
- Asylums – Genetic Cabaret
- Flat Worms – Antarctica
- DBOY – New Records in Human Power
- Ty Segall & Freedom Band – Deforming Lobes
- Black Orchids – Sakura Sorrow
- Austero – Austero
- Local H – Lifers (one song only)
- Down The Lees – Bury The Sun
2020s[edit]
2020[edit]
- Medusa – In Bed with Medusa
- Glasgow – Glasgow EP (Mix Only)
- Karabas Barabas – Degenerate National Anthem
- dave the band – Slob Stories
- Fuzz – III
- Laura Jane Grace – Stay Alive
- Living Things – Shapeshifter
- Asylums – Genetic Cabaret
- Lil BUB: The Band – Lil BUB (EP)[7]
2021[edit]
- Racing The Sun – Epidemic of Love
- Mono – Pilgrimage of the soul
- Ativin – Austere
- Prince Of Lilies – Vent
2022[edit]
- CREEPSCIENCE – Shift the Paradigm
- Cat's Eyes – Night and Soul
- Nina Nastasia – Riderless Horse
- Corduroy Cat – 10% Hopeful
- Black Midi – live at electric audio recorded by Steve Albini. (6 different songs on Flexi Discs as bonus to their Hellfire album)
- Mikey Erg – Love at Leeds
- Meet Cute – "Party Mind"
2023[edit]
- Spare Snare – The Brutal
- Liturgy – "93696"[8]
- NO MEN – Fear This
- Snailbones – "Erroneous Harmonious"[9]
- Laurel Canyon – Laurel Canyon
- Ativin – Austere
- Code Orange – The Above[10][11]
- CRYAMY – World[12]
2024[edit]
- Cheer-Accident - Vacate
- Fire! - Testament
- Facs - North American Endless
- The Conformists - Midwestless
- Didjits - Strictly Dynamite: The Best of The Didjits
- Mono - Oath
Spoken word[edit]
"Spoken Word Thing" Sub Pop 100 (Sub Pop, 1986) – Various artist compilation
References[edit]
- ^ "The four-page proposal letter Steve Albini sent to Nirvana". Faroutmagazine.co.uk. May 6, 2020. Retrieved April 4, 2022.
- ^ https://www.discogs.com/release/3919825-Joe-4-Njegov-Sin
- ^ "Full Album Stream: The Oxford Coma – "Everything Out of Tune"". Decibelmagazine.com. October 10, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2022.
- ^ DeGrechie, Eric. "New Trier grad collaborated with famed engineer Albini on 'Horizon Disrupted" album". Archived from the original on September 12, 2017.
- ^ "GEZAN 4th full album 「Silence Will Speak」発売決定。". Gezan.net. July 15, 2018.
- ^ Werksman, Hans (June 6, 2018). "Here Comes The Flood – a weblog about music: Andy Pratt: Further Disruption". Werksman.blogspot.com.
- ^ Lil BUB (EP) (label copy). Joyful Noise. 2020.
- ^ "Register". Instagram. Retrieved July 16, 2023.
- ^ "Register". Instagram. Retrieved July 16, 2023.
- ^ Hudson, Alex (July 19, 2023). "Code Orange Get Steve Albini for New Album 'The Above,' Share Single with Billy Corgan". Exclaim!. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
- ^ Kennelty, Greg (July 19, 2023). "Code Orange Teams Up With Billy Corgan For New Single "Take Shape", Announces New Album". Metal Injection. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
- ^ https://www.instagram.com/cryamy_official/p/Cz3fcbCRzgv
External Links[edit]
- Steve Albini discography at Discogs