Shellac 1000 Hurts At action Park Bundle Two Albums Vinyl Lp Great Condition
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Steve Albini classics x 2, as new condition.
At Action Park is the first full-length record by Shellac, released in 1994
Not every great, early Shellac song made it onto their debut album—the 7”-only epic “Wingwalker” being just one example—but At Action Park is no slouch in the power department. Albini has always sounded like he’s had something to prove, but here’s where he sharpens the chip on his shoulder and sets about performing an autopsy on post-punk’s corpse. “Crow” is one of many standouts, a boiling tar pit of a song whose precision is matched only by its bile-spewing acidity. Twenty years after its release, it remains a lurching, unkillable monster.
1000 Hurts is the third full-length album by Shellac, released July 31, 2000
Motifs tend to repeat themselves throughout Albini’s body of work: violence, misanthropy, resentment, and revenge being four of the big ones. They all culminate in “Prayer to God”, the opener from Shellac’s 1000 Hurts—and the single greatest song Albini has written to date. It’s as if, almost 20 years into his career, he’d found a way to distill an ocean of venom into a single drop—a two-and-a-half-minute purge of unholy jealousy that feels like a Raymond Carver short story rendered as a ransom note. The fact that its murderous impulse is phrased in the form of a prayer, complete with an “amen” at the end, only makes it that much more cold-blooded. It’s also Albini’s tour de force as a vocalist, for which he never gets enough credit; here, and on the rest of 1000 Hurts, he’s a method actor taking on horrific roles, then chewing the scenery with filed teeth.
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