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 dislikes the term to describe his work, preferring the term "recording engineer" when credited, and refuses to take royalties from bands recording in his studio, as he feels it would be unethical to do so.
As a musician, Albini has 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
Big Black, 1982–1987
- Lungs EP (Ruthless) (1982)
- Bulldozer EP (Ruthless/Fever/Touch and Go) (1983/1983/1992)
- Racer-X EP (Homestead/Touch and Go) (1984/1992)
- "Rema-Rema" 7-inch (Forced Exposure) (1985)
- The Hammer Party (Homestead) (1985) - Compilation
- "Il Duce" / "Big Money" 7-inch (Homestead) (1985)
- Atomizer (Homestead) (1986)
- Sound of Impact LP (Not, Not) (1987) - Live
- "Heartbeat" 7-inch (Touch and Go) (1987)
- Headache EP (Touch and Go) (1987)
- "He's A Whore / "The Model" 7-inch (Touch and Go) (1987)
- The Incredibly Corporate Whorish Big Black Interview Album LP (Touch and Go Records) (1987)
- (aka Talk About Fucking) (Blast First! UK)
Rapeman, 1987–1989
- "Hated Chinee" / "Marmoset" 7-inch (Touch and Go) (1988)
- Budd EP (Blast First/Touch and Go) (1988/2007)
- Two Nuns and a Pack Mule LP (Touch and Go/Supernatural Organization/Torso/Blast First) (1988)
- "Inki's Butt Crack b/w Song Number One" 7-inch (Sub Pop Singles Club 7-inch) (1989)
Shellac, 1992–present
As an audio engineer
1980s
1985
- Dark Arts – A Long Way from Brigadoon (released on Albini's Ruthless Records label)
- End Result – Ward 12-inch E.P. (released on Ruthless Records)
1986
- Urge Overkill – Strange, I... (credited as "Li'l Weed")
- Blatant Dissent – Hold the Fat LP, Dreams 7-inch (credited as "Robert Earl Hughes")
1987
1988
1989
1990s
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000s
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010s
2010
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
- 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)
2012
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
- P.K.14 – 1984
2014
2015
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) track 1-4
2017
- Ty Segall – Ty Segall
- Meat Wave – The Incessant
- The Oxford Coma - Everything Out of Tune
- STNNNG – Veterans of Pleasure
- Descartes a Kant– Victims Of Love Propaganda
- METZ - Strange Peace
- Andy Pratt — Horizon Disrupted
- Ben Frost — The Centre Cannot Hold
2018
2019
- 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
- DBOY - (Unknown)
- Ty Segall & Freedom Band - Deforming Lobes
- Black Orchids - Sakura Sorrow
- Austero - Austero
- Local H - Lifers (one song only)
2020s
2020
2021
- Racing The Sun - Epidemic of Love
- Mono - Pilgrimage of the soul
- Ativin – Austere
2022
- CREEPSCIENCE - Shift the Paradigm
- Cat's Eyes - Night and Soul
- Nina Nastasia - Just Stay in Bed
- 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
Spoken word
"Spoken Word Thing" Sub Pop 100 (Sub Pop, 1986) - Various artist compilation
References
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