“You just don’t want to be shown up by Uriah Heep,” Steve Albini says in a new A/V Club interview, referring to the final stages of the first Shellac record since 2007’s Excellent Italian Greyhound. The songs themselves are merely a few days from being done, leaving Albini to add, “Basically, we just need a name, artwork, a cover and then we have to actually finish the music–master it, get it manufactured [and] decide what to charge for it.”
One surprising development on that front is the presence of the band’s longtime label Touch and Go, which Albini expects to work with despite the fact that it’s been all but shuttered since 2009. Check out the full breakdown below…
