[1] Their 1996 debut album Hopelessness and Shame was recorded by Steve Albini.
Albini was so impressed by them that he brought them to the All Tomorrow's Parties festival he co-curated in 2004.
Direction, was released via German label Exile On Mainstream.
[5] The band got its name from a character in the 1880 Russian novel The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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