In Utero
Released
Log in to like this album.
Log in to hide this album from future recommendations.
Log in to save this album to your lists.
No active filters.
Indie label debut, major label smash, difficult follow-up: the three Nirvana studio albums released in Kurt Cobain’s lifetime tell a cautionary narrative about the ’90s alt-rock boom in themselves. But that final piece is the great refutation, a willfully ugly album that aimed to make every listener feel the same kind of emotional and even physical discomfort its frontman did. Albini’s knob-twists bring out the best in Grohl’s motorik/Bonzo-funk mode, Krist’s glop-bass smothering, and Kurt’s feedback-bleeding pinched-nerve riffs.