steve_albini raze almost everything you recorded sounded like a fight. and i loved that. my favourite albums by nirvana, pixies, scout niblett, the auteurs, and pj_harvey have always been the ones you helmed. and yet your work with nina nastasia and jason_molina proved you could bend to capture quieter voices too. i used to have this crazy dream of flying out to chicago with my warped little post-high school power trio and spending a day or two banging out a set of songs at electrical audio. i was already doing that at home anyway, with cheap dynamic mics in place of the vintage ribbons and condensers you kept in your cabinet. i wish i'd called you up when i was eighteen and terrified of everything but screaming my guts out in front of a microphone. not that it would have changed the trajectory of my life or anything. but it might have given me a good story to tell. i wonder what you would have made of me. i'll never know now, because you're dead. fuck. 240509 ... warmthofrelease his perpetually overlooked minimalist rock band Shellac. his ties with Slint and Rodan and that nasty Louisville crowd. produced the best Cloud_Nothings album by far. gave the king of sadness Molina the highest podium he ever got to stand on. and yes of course the most fucked up swan song of all time, In_Utero. dead as fuck. fuck. sad as that is, one beautiful constant remained though his life and on to his death. nobody could tell him what to do. farewell. 240509 ... nr i don't know what else to say, but i'll echo the "fuck." we lost one of the most original, creative people way too soon. 240510 what's it to you? who go blather from