Steve Albini discography

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.

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)

1997

 * Souls – Bird fish or in between
 * 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
 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

2000

 * 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
 * xbxrx - Gop Ist Minee

2001

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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
 * The Splints – Love Letters and Broken Bones
 * Precore – Sick
 * Born Again Floozies – street music, 13 Rebellions and a Song of Consolation
 * The New Year - The New Year

2009

 * The Provocative Whites – EVOLYM
 * 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
 * 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

2010

 * 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

 * 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)
 * Andy Powder – Friendlier

2012

 * 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 – 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

2013

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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 (tracks 1–4)

2017

 * Ty Segall – Ty Segall
 * Meat Wave – The Incessant
 * The Oxford Coma – Everything Out of Tune
 * 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
 * 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

 * 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
 * Super Unison – Stella
 * Alpha Strategy – The Gurgler
 * Meat Wave – The Incessant
 * Andy Pratt – Further Disruption (EP)
 * Control Group – It's the year 2000!

2019

 * 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

2020

 * 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

2021

 * Racing The Sun – Epidemic of Love
 * Mono – Pilgrimage of the soul
 * Ativin – Austere
 * Prince Of Lilies – Vent

2022

 * 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

 * Spare Snare – The Brutal
 * Liturgy – "93696"
 * NO MEN – Fear This
 * Snailbones – "Erroneous Harmonious"
 * Laurel Canyon – Laurel Canyon
 * Ativin – Austere
 * Code Orange – The Above
 * CRYAMY – World

2024

 * Cheer-Accident - Vacate
 * Fire! - Testament
 * Facs - North American Endless
 * The Conformists - Midwestless
 * Didjits - Strictly Dynamite: The Best of The Didjits
 * Mono - Oath
 * Redshift Headlights - If You Are Around Still
 * The Ergs! - Dorkrockcorkrod (20th Anniversary Steve Albini Remix)

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"Spoken Word Thing" - Sub Pop 100 (Sub Pop, 1986) – Various artist compilation