Steve Albini To Produce Next Album?

[MSPKYE]

Channel 4 Planet Sound pg 341

MSP and Albini

Manic Street Preachers are considering getting Steve Albini to produce their next album, PS can reveal.

"Steve Albini is on our radar and we like the idea of going to Chicago to work with him Nicky Wire told PS.

Wire added "We wouldn't choose Albini to make the songs sound awkward and horrible, but to make them big. We're into Quadrophenia too and we might write the songs in a different way."

Full Manics interview this weekend.

[adore failure]

yeah but they always say these sorts of things and nothing ever comes of it.

Cool, I think. Maybe the Manics have a Surfa Rosa on the horizon...

On second thoughts, he mentioned sounding big. Didn't he do In Utero or am I mistaken?

[adore failure]

Originally Posted by clashboy

Cool, I think. Maybe the Manics have a Surfa Rosa on the horizon...

On second thoughts, he mentioned sounding big. Didn't he do In Utero or am I mistaken?

he did indeed

[EscapeFromOurHistory]

Originally Posted by clashboy

On second thoughts, he mentioned sounding big. Didn't he do In Utero or am I mistaken?

Yeah I think you're right. That's a great sounding record - considering it's pretty much a band playing in a little room, it sounds massive. This will be really interesting if it happens. Which it probably won't.

Originally Posted by EscapeFromOurHistory

Yeah I think you're right. That's a great sounding record - considering it's pretty much a band playing in a little room, it sounds massive. This will be really interesting if it happens. Which it probably won't.

Truesay. I'm not a Nirvana fan particularly but I know that record through friends and it is impressively massive sounding.

[Bathtub]

I can't see this happening,and even if it does it'll be like three tracks with Albini and then Dave Eringa or someone familiar will do the rest.

[lovesean4ever]

don't know who he is?? and MANICS full interview on teletext this weekend guys

[Napoleon Bonaparte]

The latest thing I have with input from Albini is The Stooges last album. The material is what lets that down, it certainly sounds like The Stooges should. I hope if they get him it's for the whole album, I think it would eliminate some of the patchiness in sound inherent in using different producers for different tracks.

Quadrophenia eh? So "Heyday Of The Blood" was a good indicator then. & In that case can they invite Pete Townshend on stage with them to do a cover of Punk & The Godfather? Please

[Alan Noir]

Regardless of who produces, they'd be crazy not to follow up SATT fairly promptly.

[Always/Never]

Originally Posted by Alan Too

Regardless of who produces, they'd be crazy not to follow up SATT fairly promptly.

Couldn't agree more - late 2008/early 2009 should be when they next release an album.

[Archivesoftherevollover]

hopefully they pull out a new one at the O2 or at one of the festivals

[TheSilentMan]

Urgh, I hate it when people use his talents for the wrong reasons. Albini is best when he's making things sound raw, gritty, dirty and noisy. See: Oxbow, Big Black, Neurosis, Jesus Lizard, Whitehouse, Made out of Babies... http://youtube.com/watch?v=mZW0CZClXfA He's also good at making post-rock and bands with a 'sparse' sound sound big.

Getting him to produce a band like MSP, who at the end of the day are playing pretty standard sounding 'rock' seems like a waste of time, when most other decent producers would suffice just as well, and Albini could put his efforts into producing bands that more suit his style.

Albini did suit In Utero because it was a raw sounding album (it's kinda like a heavily toned down Big Black album or something). MSP totally aren't gonna follow up 2 polished-stadium-rock albums with a gritty grunge album.

[Napoleon Bonaparte]

Originally Posted by Always/Never

Couldn't agree more - late 2008/early 2009 should be when they next release an album.

I'd put my money down on March 2009

[Napoleon Bonaparte]

Originally Posted by TheSilentMan

Albini is best when he's making things sound raw, gritty, dirty and noisy. See: Oxbow, Big Black, Neurosis, Jesus Lizard, Whitehouse, Made out of Babies... http://youtube.com/watch?v=mZW0CZClXfA He's also good at making post-rock and bands with a 'sparse' sound sound big.

So he should be great at putting a Who-like jagged edge in, & making Mooreo sound (even more) like Keith Moon?

He'd 'give it some bollocks'. Perfect. It not sounding "awkward & horrible" doesn't mean it can't be loud.