Big Black – Bulldozer [EP]

Bulldozer is Steve Albini’s second release through Big Black, and it’s miles ahead of Lungs. For starters, there’s an actual amp for the guitar instead of an old TEAC augmented by a Casiotone, which made Lungs sound like a cheap-ass record on Fisher-Price. He’s a got a real drummer on the beats too via Pat…

Big Black – Lungs [EP]

Lungs is 19-year old Steve Albini playing every instrument except for a drum machine and “sax bleats”1 as Big Black. What would become a household name in noise rock started off pretty rough on this extended-play, with fleshless songs and angular guitar strums against incredibly simple (and nigh-identical) percussion loops. Albini’s voice is extremely reverbed,…