Time is patient, like a hunter

Steve Albini’s last Shellac album is a fitting epitaph, but there's so much more

Three weeks ago, there was a 14-year-old boy in this house wondering why I was blasting Big Black’s ‘Kerosene’ at full volume.

In as much as 14-year-old boys wonder much of anything about their parents’ musical tastes, he might – had he not swiftly taken himself off to a different room – have wondered exactly what I find so fascinating about the song’s b…