Nirvana In Utero ( 180g vinyl LP )

Release date: 12-12-2009 (originally released in 1993)

2014 reissue ( 180g vinyl LP ) In Utero is the 3rd and final studio album from the American grunge band Nirvana, released in September 1993. Following the massive and unexpected commercial success of Nirvanas second album Nevermind in 1991, the band had intended to return to its roots by recording a more abrasive and less mainstreamsounding release. Frontman Kurt Cobain was aware that Nirvana risked alienating its core fanbase of punk and indie rockers with its recent superstardom, and the albums producer Steve Albini was key to the albums grungy production.

Tracks
A1 Serve The Servants
A2 Scentless Apprentice
A3 Heart Shaped Box
A4 Rape Me
A5 Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle
A6 Dumb

B1 Very Ape
B2 Milk It
B3 Pennyroyal Tea
B4 Radio Friendly Unit Shifter
B5 Tourettes
B6 All Apologies

To say that Nirvana's third and ultimately final studio album In Utero was 1993's most polarizing record would be the understatement of a decade. The unadorned sonic rawness of Steve Albini's recording laid bare every primal nuance of the most confrontational yet vulnerable material Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl would ever record. And with its 1991 predecessor Nevermind having sold some 30 million copies, single-handedly returning honest rock ’n’ roll to the top of the pop charts, In Utero was essentially the first record Nirvana would make with any expectations from the public.

So from the opening quasi-shamble melodics of "Serve The Servants" through the bittersweet closing strains of "All Apologies," In Utero was the sound of the most incredible yet conflicted rock ‘n’ roll band of the era at the peak of its powers coming to terms with a generational spokes-band mantle they'd never seen coming - and ultimately surmounting these struggles to make the record they needed to make. As Rolling Stone's David Fricke said in his review at the time, "In Utero is a lot of things - brilliant, corrosive, enraged and thoughtful, most of them all at once. But more than anything, it's a triumph of the will."