Information of Steve Albini’s unexpected passing on Wednesday, Could eighth, has been met with an outpouring of tributes from fellow musicians, together with those that had labored with him.
Cloud Nothings labored with Albini on their 2012 magnum opus, Assault on Reminiscence. “steve touched numerous lives and altered mine and plenty of others for the higher,” frontman Dylan Baldi wrote on Twitter. “a real, singular, principled particular person. spent the final 40 years serving to folks make artwork. there’s no purpose for him to be gone and the world is much less attention-grabbing with out him. only a actually unhappy day.”
Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker collaborated with Albini on his 2009 solo album, Additional Problems. “Working with Steve Albini was an training in some ways: the technical points of recording sound, for positive – but in addition classes in dwell & work at making music with out being destroyed by the Music Enterprise,” Cocker remembered. “Hearken to the music he was concerned in & learn what he wrote about it. It’s price it.”
Comic and musician Fred Armisen wrote, “I really like Steve a lot. We stated it extra typically to one another lately. I’m so glad I acquired to inform him. He was so humorous, on a regular basis. He despatched me this textual content a number of days in the past: ‘I shouldn’t admit this however I don’t get cymbals. Like I can inform the distinction between this one and that one but when I’m sincere they each sound like cymbals and I don’t care.” I all the time cherished listening to him say ‘I don’t care.’ He was such a very good pal to me, endlessly. I admired his work ethic and his heat. And his opinions on nationwide flags. On all the things.”
Pixies, who labored with Albini on their traditional 1988 debut Surfer Rosa, Jack White, Jeff Rosenstock, Speedy Ortiz, illuminati hotties, Fucked Up, Chris Walla of Demise Cab For Cutie, Jon Wurster of Superchunk, Brad Wilk of Rage In opposition to the Machine, and The Cribs are a few of the different acts who’ve paid tribute to Albini.
See all of those tributes and extra under.
steve touched numerous lives and altered mine and plenty of others for the higher. a real, singular, principled particular person. spent the final 40 years serving to folks make artwork. there is no purpose for him to be gone and the world is much less attention-grabbing with out him. only a actually unhappy day.
— Cloud Nothings (@cloudnothings) May 8, 2024
grateful to have seen steve albini play, to have my style in music formed by the unimaginable data he carried out & engineered, & for his ideas on recording and its enterprise, which modified my worldview. getting to fulfill him & try electrical was a high 10 second for me. RIP
— speedy ortiz ÷ sad13 ÷ sadie dupuis ÷ haunted man (@sad13) May 8, 2024
gutted…
rock was modified endlessly
the way in which we report was modified endlessly https://t.co/GCQpvPnPj0— illuminati hotties (@illuminatihotts) May 8, 2024
rip steve
you hated our band and made enjoyable of us whereas we had been recording at your studio however you stood for one thing sincere and honest in music and tried to make it a greater place in all the things you probably did and there’ll by no means be one other one such as you
— Fucked Up (@FUCKEDUP) May 8, 2024
steve was so beneficiant and good to me when i used to be younger and new. i’ve a lot to say nevertheless it’s gonna take a sec, i’m simply tremendously unhappy. gawd i cherished that man.
— chris walla (@calculizer) May 8, 2024
Steve was such a very good, caring, and humorous man. I’ll all the time treasure the evening in ‘99 when he took me to Second Metropolis to see a present. I walked into the Electrical kitchen on the agreed upon departure time and he checked out my head, smiled and stated, “Your hair is peak Mellencamp.” ❤️
— Jon Wurster (@jonwurster) May 8, 2024
Can’t consider this. Steve Albini was certainly one of our heroes and one of many causes we really feel so pleased with be part of the Chicago music group.. sending like to his household and buddies and holding his data shut endlessly. Can’t consider it https://t.co/NbtpNhjX6a
— Ratboys (@Ratboysband) May 8, 2024
RIP Steve Albini. The Trash Discuss S/T LP was a really uncooked time for us as a band. You welcomed us in with open arms for that session. I’ll always remember that week. 👑🔊
— Lee Spielman (@LeeSpielman) May 8, 2024
Don’t even know what to say about Albini. Wrote a few of the most grueling stuff ever recorded (Jordan, Minnesota), disorienting cinema verite recordings that pulled focus from small/dry to large/cavernous, volleyball hitting a sequence hyperlink fence guitar burned in my mind since youth
— Boeckner (@d_boeckner) May 8, 2024
I am saddened to be taught of the loss of life of Steve Albini. Like so many, I cherished his firebreathing Huge Black data as an adolescent. I met him briefly at Jason Noble’s memorial service and located him to be a form and considerate particular person. My ideas exit to his family and friends.
— DREW DANIEL (@DDDrewDaniel) May 8, 2024
Later, Steve.https://t.co/75xQQfQyl6
FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!
— Rob Crow 🧢 (@rob5d4) May 8, 2024
THE BEST EVER pic.twitter.com/pfR5zIAUZS
— The Cribs (@thecribs) May 8, 2024
albini’s realness, knowledge, and depraved wit will proceed to information me for the remainder of my life
— Dave Bazan (@davidbazan) May 8, 2024
I a lot loved his trail-blazing bands & expertise, and recording songs at his nice studio. I admired his fierce combat for justice and equity, and had one unforgettable & hilarious Ramen dinner collectively. He’ll by no means be forgotten.
Relaxation in Energy, Steve Albini pic.twitter.com/EXaoCcFCGM
— Invoice MacKay (@BillMacKay68) May 8, 2024
We’re deeply saddened to listen to of Steve Albini’s passing and maintain his household in our hearts. Thanks for all that you simply contributed to punk rock in our city and the reverberations of creativity you introduced forth, felt the world over. pic.twitter.com/WkisQaMEpH
— Metro (@MetroChicago) May 8, 2024
RIP to Steve Albini, a wizard who would hate being referred to as a wizard, however who certainly made magic.
Here is the Electrical Audio format for ‘Magnolia Electrical Co’, simply sketched out merely, on paper, prefer it’s not poised to shift time and area and all our hearts. pic.twitter.com/u1PRGrpi2M
— Secretly Canadian (@secretlycndian) May 8, 2024