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At Action Park (CD)

By: Shellac (Artist)

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Shellac Artist Snapshot:

After more than a decade of influence as producer (Pixies, Nirvana) and post-hardcore performer (Rapeman, Big Black), Steve Albini recruited Volcano Suns' Bob Weston and Brick Layer Cake's Todd Trainer to form the plodding, methodical post-rock Shellac. Signed to Big Black's former label, Touch And Go, Shellac released their acclaimed debut, AT ACTION PARK, in 1994. While the outfit toured sporadically due to numerous other commitments, they did release three more LPs between 1997 and 2000. However, it would be a full seven years before their fifth full-length, EXCELLENT ITALIAN GREYHOUND, emerged.

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DISC 1 for At Action Park (CD) Album By Shellac (Artist)
1   My Black Ass
2   Pull The Cup
3   Admiral, The
4   Crow
5   Song Of The Minerals
6   Minute, A
7   Idea Of North, The
8   Dog And Pony Show
9   Boche's Dick
10   Il Porno Star
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (12/29/94-1/12/95, p.174) - "...Steve Albini's SWAT trio...make an astonishingly Crimson-like noise--wind-shear guitar distortion, intense rhythm math....The spirit and velocity are born more of flamethrower vengeance than beat-science dreams, but...hit the spot just the same."

Title Note

Shellac: Steve Albini (guitar); Robert Spurr Weston IV (bass); Todd Stanford Trainer (drums).

Featuring indie rock anti-Svengali Steve Albini, the more organically minded Bob Weston and tumultuous timekeeper Todd Trainer, this is Shellac's long awaited first album. Shellac makes the complex simple using churning, melodic guitar licks and Albini's signature speak-sing-yell voice. On "Song of the Minerals," the squawking vocal, "It's all right if it makes you feel better," is repeated over a roiling bass line, interjected with a saw-like, circular guitar pedal-induced noise. Most of the songs are similarly constructed, the words fitting like puzzle pieces in a grand rock scheme.

Retro-technical themes are conveyed in the music, and also in Shellac's packaging--the compact discs sport pro-vinyl messages, and the vinyl sleeves are intricately packaged and designed. Titles, like those of the previous three releases, RUDE GESTURE: A PICTORAL HISTORY, URANUS, and BIRD IS THE MOST POPULAR FIGURE, all seven-inch vinyl singles, hint at humor as artistic expression. With a heavy, linear sound, Shellac manages to be both nerdy and head banging.

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