It’s 9am when Music Week finds alt-rock producer extraordinaire Butch Vig in his LA home studio. And despite the early hour, he is quick to assure us that he has already been up since 6am and is currently on his third cup of coffee. “I have an 11-year-old daughter,“ he offers by way of explanation.

That we catch him at his place of work long before many have finished their cornflakes is more than fitting for someone of Vig’s intense ...