LISTEN is an organization that "exists to spark and cultivate a conversation from a feminist perspective around the experiences of marginalised people in Australian music." In a new post, site founder Evelyn Morris (who also performs as Pikelet) interviewed Steve Albini, whose band Shellac invited Pikelet to open an Australian tour a few years ago. The conversation focused on discussing Albini's work through a feminist lens. Morris writes that she initiated the talk after analyzing her own relationship with Albini's music, particularly how the Shellac/Pikelet tour helped her process her experience with sexual assault.

During that tour, she said she felt "utterly respected" by the band, and that "feeling accepted by Shellac went a long way in helping me to give less of a fuck about what dudes thought." In the conversation, Morris probed Albini about his experience of feminism in the music community, and got him to analyze songs by Big Black, Rapeman, and Shellac from a feminist point of view.

"I consider women’s perspectives to be critically important to our scene, and I am pleased to be asked to comment rather than being used as an unexamined data point," he said. Read the full interview here, and find some excerpts below.

When Morris asked Albini if he saw his own music as "masculine," he replied: