"My role in both of those records is kind of a footnote"

It's very much in character for Steve Albini - who, as NME interviewer Christopher Evans (and, indeed, all music journalists) are duty bound to mention, "refers to himself as a 'recording engineer' rather than a producer" - to downplay the extent of his involvement in Nirvana's In Utero and the Manics' Journal For Plague Lovers.

It sounds as though both albums presented Albini with their own unique challenges - in the case of the former, having to block out the post-Nevermind circus that surrounded Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl; in the case of the latter, trying to keep focused on the recording process in Wales when his wife was ill at home in the US.