Atomizer

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Remastered vinyl LP pressing. Originally released in 1985 by Steve Albini and Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering, Big Black's first full-length album Atomizer. This remastered version of Atomizer includes the song "Strange Things" which appeared on the first pressing of Atomizer, but was not present on subsequent vinyl pressings nor on The Rich Man's Eight Track CD. Big Black began in 1982, Steve Albini, then a sophomore at Northwestern University, fanzine writer and loudmouth, released the Lungs EP on the Chicago co-operative label Ruthless (whose other artists at the time included Naked Raygun and the Effigies). Lungs was recorded in his apartment on a borrowed 4-track for the price of one case of beer.