Forget the Platonic ideal, Shellac have always aspired to the sardonic ideal. On a ditty cheekily titled “Chick New Wave” — off To All Trains, the noise-rock group’s sixth and final album following ...
“What if hell is silence?” was the first note I jotted down for this review, upon ending my second playthrough of Shellac’s sixth and final studio album—11 days after singer/guitarist Steve Albini ...
Shellac ’s relationship with All Tomorrow’s Parties goes back to the year 2000, when Mogwai selected them among 36 acts to perform at Pontins holiday camp for the first ATP festival of the millennium.