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Sounds Recorded by Steve Albini

album by Spare Snare

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 27, 2024
Entity authorityQ56208948 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sounds is the 13th album by Scottish lo-fi band Spare Snare, record and engineered by Steve Albini and released in 2018.

Details

In February 2018, Spare Snare and Steve Albini presented an Audio Engineers' Workshop at Chem19 Studios in Blantyre, Scotland, after the workshop Spare Snare spent a further 4 days recording 10 songs from their back catalogue. The album and the workshop were both funded by Creative Scotland. It was recorded onto 2 inch tape at 15 inch per second and mixed down to half inch tape at 30 inch per second.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Sounds Recorded by Steve Albini” is album by Spare Snare. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Sounds, Recorded and Steve, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2018. For this dossier, Sounds, Recorded and Steve is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “album by Spare Snare” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 27, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q56208948. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2018.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Sounds Recorded by Steve Albini”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Sounds Recorded by Steve Albini primary sources, Sounds Recorded by Steve Albini archive and Sounds research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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This entry incorporates text from “Sounds Recorded by Steve Albini” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.