There’s no debating the impact Steve Albini left on music. The late icon strapped himself into his guitar while throttling songs in Shellac and Big Black , changing how menacing a punk riff could sound. He oversaw the making of hundreds, if not thousands, of albums as an engineer and refused to take much credit—or money—for his part in the final outcome, whether it was Nirvana ’s In Utero or Joanna Newsom ’s Ys . He was a teacher by practice who poured both the mortar to build his own recording