Brian Fox, a fellow producer and engineer at Albini’s Electrical Audio studio in Chicago, confirmed Albini passed away Tuesday night from a heart attack.
— Steve Albini, an alt-rock musician, audio engineer, and producer who recorded albums for bands like Nirvana and Pixies and founded the Chicago recording studio Electrical Audio, has died at the age of 61.
Brian Fox, a fellow producer and engineer at Electrical Audio, confirmed Albini passed away Tuesday night from a heart attack.
«We are not ready to make any other statements yet. Maybe in the next few days, we could talk about his impact, which was immense,» Fox said in an email.
Albini’s death came little more than a week before his longtime band Shellac was set to release a new album, To All Trains, on May 17.
