Fugazi have paid tribute to the late Steve Albini by releasing the scrapped sessions they recorded at his Electrical Audio studio in 1992. Albini had engineered and mixed the session, but he and the band came to the conclusion that the recordings had fallen short. Fugazi wound up rerecording the songs with Ted Niceley for 1993’s In on the Kill Taker. Dischord announced the original sessions’ release today, saying proceeds would go to Letters Charity, which Albini and his wife, Heather Whinna, founded to help Chicago families living in poverty. Listen to a pair of songs, “Facet Squared” and “Smallpox Champion,” in the player below, and click through to buy the album on Bandcamp.
Last year, Rye Coalition reunited to cover Shellac’s “Wingwalker,” part of a charity single with Drive Like Jehu that, like this release, benefitted Albini’s Letters Charity.
Read Grayson Haver Currin’s obituary Steve Albini Did the Work.