The word acerbic has appeared in 73 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on May 8 in the obituary “Steve Albini, Studio Master of ’90s Rock and Beyond, Dies at 61” by Ben Sisario:
With a sharp vision for how a band should be recorded — as raw as possible — and an even sharper tongue for anything he deemed mediocre or compromised, Mr. Albini was a visionary in the studio and one of rock’s most acerbic wits.
… He also long maintained an impish zeal to provoke and offend. Big Black’s last, most acclaimed album, from 1987, has a typically unprintable title, and he once dismissed Nirvana — the group that later hired him to record the album “In Utero” (1993), at the peak of their fame — as nothing but “R.E.M. with a fuzzbox.”
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