Steve Albini, a leading light of indie rock’s sound and morality as frontman of Big Black and Shellac and recording engineer for Nirvana, PJ Harvey and many other artists, has died at the age 61.

Cobain and Nirvana took the musical world by storm in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They released three albums, with the last being ’In Utero’ in 1993. The grunge icons played Manchester ...