Forget the Platonic ideal, Shellac have always aspired to the sardonic ideal. On a ditty cheekily titled “Chick New Wave” — off To All Trains, the noise-rock group’s sixth and final album following the recent death of its singer-guitarist Steve Albini — we hear Albini hector, “I’m through with music from dudes … all I care about is chick new wave.” And of course he sings this as if the three musicians who wrote and recorded the song aren’t dudes whose last album was titled Dude Incredible, and that any...
- 5/20/2024
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
The Steve Albini-fronted band Shellac have returned with their first new album in a decade, To All Trains, a tragically bittersweet release that arrives just a week after Albini’s passing.
Spanning 10 songs, To All Trains is Shellac’s first release since 2014’s Dude Incredible, and features the trio — Albini (guitar and vocals), Bob Weston (bass), and Todd Trainer (drums) — in signature form. The album was recorded in Chicago “over a bunch of long weekends” in the late 2010s and early ‘20s. It was finished and mastered by Albini and Weston last year.
Now, after Albini’s death by a heart attack last week, the album arrives as a poignant memorial to the legendary engineer’s life and work. In a statement posted last week, Corey Rusk, Albini’s longtime friend and founder of Touch and Go Records — which released To All Trains — said, “It’s incomprehensible that Steve...
Spanning 10 songs, To All Trains is Shellac’s first release since 2014’s Dude Incredible, and features the trio — Albini (guitar and vocals), Bob Weston (bass), and Todd Trainer (drums) — in signature form. The album was recorded in Chicago “over a bunch of long weekends” in the late 2010s and early ‘20s. It was finished and mastered by Albini and Weston last year.
Now, after Albini’s death by a heart attack last week, the album arrives as a poignant memorial to the legendary engineer’s life and work. In a statement posted last week, Corey Rusk, Albini’s longtime friend and founder of Touch and Go Records — which released To All Trains — said, “It’s incomprehensible that Steve...
- 5/17/2024
- by Jo Vito
- Consequence - Music
Steve Albini’s rock trio Shellac have announced their first album since 2014’s Dude Incredible. The LP, which will not be available on streaming, is titled To All Trains, and it’s set to arrive on May 17th.
Through a statement, band members Steve Albini, Todd Trainer, and Bob Weston revealed that To All Trains is an album that has been nearly seven years in the making. Recording for the project took place in Chicago “over a bunch of long weekends in November, 2017; October, 2019; September, 2021; and March, 2022,” they shared.
The new record will be available in CD and vinyl format, and a pre-sale is now underway. Some additional details about the project can be found with Touch and Go Records, like the fact that Weston took all the photos for artwork himself, “some with a fancy camera and some with a telephone.” The vinyl LP is being manufactured by Green Vinyl Records,...
Through a statement, band members Steve Albini, Todd Trainer, and Bob Weston revealed that To All Trains is an album that has been nearly seven years in the making. Recording for the project took place in Chicago “over a bunch of long weekends in November, 2017; October, 2019; September, 2021; and March, 2022,” they shared.
The new record will be available in CD and vinyl format, and a pre-sale is now underway. Some additional details about the project can be found with Touch and Go Records, like the fact that Weston took all the photos for artwork himself, “some with a fancy camera and some with a telephone.” The vinyl LP is being manufactured by Green Vinyl Records,...
- 3/20/2024
- by Mary Siroky
- Consequence - Music
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