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Steve Albini’s Shellac recorded two sessions for the John Peel show - the first in 1994, the second in 2004. Both are collected on The End Of Radio, a typically wry title from a noise rock act for whom being wry is their bread and butter. It’s interesting to hear how the band’s live sound morphs in the decade of space here. Where the 1994 session is breakneck and breathless, there’s a curiously blunt feel to the later recordings that give them an intriguing and abstract feel.