How close is Shellac to making another record?
Steve Albini: We always have vague plans. We don’t have anything firm. I mean, we’re working on some new material, and we’d like to record it eventually. D: Most bands only tour when they have a record out, but Shellac never really followed the record-tour-record model. SA: When you’ve been a band for a long enough time, you’ve already got a bunch of songs—you don’t really need to keep pumpin’ ’em out. And the other thing is that when we started the band, we decided that we were only ever going to do things that were worth doing for their own sake. We were never gonna play shows just because they were filling a hole in the calendar, or put out a record just because we haven’t put one out in a while. So, if you put that high a threshold on things, you don’t make that many records because there aren’t that many records dying to get made. You have to sit on a bunch of crappy records before you get a good one. It always takes us a while to get off the schnide, but we’re fairly efficient wh
