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PJ Harvey Pays Tribute to Steve Albini: ‘He Taught Me So Much About Music, and Life’
PJ Harvey paid tribute to Steve Albini, who she recorded her acclaimed second album 'Rid of Her' with, following the death of the noise-rock pioneer.
Recorded in less than two weeks at Albini’s then-go-to Pachyderm Studios, 1993’s Rid of Me would ultimately be regarded as Harvey’s masterpiece and land on Rolling Stone ’s 500 Greatest Albums list, where we noted “the intense dynamic shifts in her music, which careen from blues to goth, often in the space of one song. Harvey was under the influence of Howlin’ Wolf, Tom Waits, and Flannery O’Connor, and her singing, writing, and lead-guitar playing coalesce into something marked by flames. “Perhaps, at the time, we imagined he was the first of many brilliant experts we would encounter as our music career progressed— but it soon became clear that the unique combination of talents that constituted Steve were of the once in a lifetime variety.
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