Albini and vocalist-bassist Bob Weston sing most songs with a smirk. There’s the album’s “How I Wrote How I Wrote ‘Elastic Man’ (cock & bull),” whose title takes the piss out of the Fall song from ...

Steve Albini (center) with his Shellac bandmates, Bob Weston (front) and Todd Trainer (back) (photo by Masao Nakagami via Flickr) I think most people have a memory of the first time they encountered ...

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 ...