- Dude Incredible
Chicago-based postpunk trio Shellac, who play at Lincoln Hall this Sunday and Monday, have just announced details for their long-awaited new LP, Dude Incredible (no comma, “like Sir Duke or King Friday,” the Touch and Go Records website explains), their first since 2007’s Excellent Italian Greyhound. Fronted by legendary recording engineers and studio rats Steve Albini and Bob Weston, Shellac formed 22 years ago, and have since made incredibly minimal, rhythmic, aggressive art-punk on their terms alone. In that time they’ve made six LPs, one of which, 1997’s The Futurist, was pressed in an edition of fewer than 800 and given as gifts to friends (all of whom are listed on the jacket). They only play live sporadically, and they’ve got no use at all for digital recording technology.
