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.
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
Just Ducky, 1979âÂÂ1980 (Missoula)
Big Black, 1982âÂÂ87
Rapeman, 1987âÂÂ89
Shellac, 1992âÂÂ2024
Other
- 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)
- Music from Girl on the Third Floor (with Alison Chesley and Tim Midyett) on Touch and Go (soundtrack album, 2020)
Credits on other artists' releases
1980s
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990s
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
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2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010s
2010
2011
- The Gary â El Camino
- Let's Wrestle â Nursing Home
- Senium â Such Progress
- Azimyth â Azimyth
- Bear Claw â Refuse This Gift
- The Crooked Fiddle Band â Overgrown Tales
- Sleepwalks â The Milk Has Gone Sour (recording engineer, credited as Stevo)
- Joan of Arc â Life Like
- Monotonix â Not Yet
- Weedeater â Jason...The Dragon
- Andy Powder â Friendlier
- 24 Grana â âÂÂLa stessa barcaâÂÂ
2012
2013
- Man or Astro-man? â Defcon 5 4 3 2 1
- Goddard â 10-inch (with Giraffes? Giraffes!)
- Candelilla â Heart Mutter
- The Crooked Fiddle Band â Moving Pieces Of The Sea
- Saything â Nonsense
- The Seething Coast â Olympia
- STNNNG â Empire Inward
- Robert Rolfe Feddersen â American Loser
- The New Trust â Keep Dreaming
- Barb Wire Dolls â Slit
- P.K.14 â 1984
- Thom Bowden - Searching The Brittle Light
2014
2015
- Conduct â Fear and Desire
- Raketkanon â RKTKN#2
- KEN Mode â Success
- WOMPS â Live a Little Less/Dreams on Demand
- Steve Taylor and the Danielson Foil â Wow to the Deadness
- Weedeater â Goliathan
- Screaming Females â Rose Mountain
- Subsurfer â La La La
- Hex Horizontalâ Electric Fence
- Yonatan Gat â Physical Copy
- Sterling Witt - Satyagraha
2016
- Alpha Strategy â Drink the Brine, Get Scarce
- Womps â Our fertile forever
- Cocaine Piss â Sex Weirdos 7-inch
- Cocaine Piss â The Dancer
- Valina â In Position
- Peter Squires â When I Couldn't Move
- Robbie Fulks â Upland Stories
- Neurosis â Fires Within Fires
- The Conformists â Divorce
- Karabas Barabas â Return of the Sexy Demon
- Kapitan Korsakov â Physical Violence is the Least of My Priorities
- Vomitface â Hooray for Me
- Descartes a Kant â Victims of Love Propaganda
- Malojian â This Is Nowhere
- Mono â Requiem For Hell
- Dazzling Killmen â Face of Collapse: Special Edition (25th Anniversary reissue)
- Chris Cobilis (performed by Spektral Quartet and Kenneth Goldsmith) â This Is You
- Sex Snobs â Emotional Stuffing
- KEN Mode â Nerve EP (tracks 1âÂÂ4)
- Oddity - âÂÂSettle DownâÂÂ
2017
- Ty Segall â Ty Segall
- Meat Wave â The Incessant
- The Oxford Coma â Everything Out of Tune
- STNNNG â Veterans of Pleasure
- The Cribs -24âÂÂ7 Rock Star Shit
- Descartes a Kantâ Victims Of Love Propaganda
- METZ â Strange Peace
- Andy Pratt â Horizon Disrupted
- Ben Frost â The Centre Cannot Hold
- The Wedding Present â George Best (20th anniversary re-recording. Recorded in 2007 but not released until 2017)
- The New Year - Snow
- Super Static Fever - Silent Dynamic Torture (recorded in the 90's, remastered by Albini)
2018
2019
- Fastriser â Type III
- Mono â Nowhere Now Here
- Sunn O))) â Life Metal
- Sunn O))) â Pyroclasts
- Triliteral â Flying Snake's Claw
- Frank Iero and the Future Violents â Barriers
- Doblecapa â La Felpa
- Uzeda â Quocumque jeceris stabit
- Décibelles â Rock Français
- Asylums â Genetic Cabaret
- Flat Worms â Antarctica
- DBOY â New Records in Human Power
- Ty Segall & Freedom Band â Deforming Lobes
- Black Orchids â Sakura Sorrow
- Austero â Austero
- Local H â Lifers (one song only)
- Down The Lees â Bury The Sun
- Psihomodo Pop - Digitalno Nebo (engineer on tracks 10 and 12)
2020s
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
Spoken word
- "Spoken Word Thing" - Sub Pop 100 (Sub Pop, 1986) â compilation by various artists
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