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| Artist: Slint
Label: Touch & Go Reco
Category: Music
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Rating:  87 reviews
Sales Rank: 28832
Media: LP Record
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 11.7 x 11.7 x 0.2
UPC: 036172076413
EAN: 0036172076413
ASIN: B00008FWRW
Release Date: January 20, 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | Breadcrumb Trail | | • | Nosferatu Man | | • | Don, Aman | | • | Washer | | • | For Dinner... | | • | Good Morning Captain - Slint, Slint |
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Although this Kentucky combo had a short lifespan, its influence has been extraordinary, presaging the underground "math-rock" revolution and spawning spinoffs such as Tortoise and Gastr Del Sol. But don't go thinking that the foursome is a mere footnote: The bracingly dense, dizzyingly complex songs that vein this, their second full-length release, perfectly capture the smarter face of early-'90s thug-rock. Yes, Slint's sound is descended from punk, but its members--particularly guitarist Brian McMahan--never subscribed to the "keep it simple, stupid" philosophy. Spiderland is so rife with breakneck tempo changes, off-kilter chord progressions, and bizarro-world themes, you'd be hard-pressed to go a listen without discovering something new. --David Sprague
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 experience the most intimate inner spasms and ever more Loud January 7, 2009
Marco Palumbo
A masterpiece. An impeccable and vivid recording, with songs that blend toghether obsessives, hypnotics elements (never boring) at mixed tempos(4+3, 3+2) with a fluidity that is disarming, songs that vary the intimate painful, resulting in powerful explosions never ends in themselves. Slow, malincholy, strength, all in one. Minimalism has never been so fascinating.
Take Your Time With This One January 2, 2008
Margarine Hype (Cavernous Churn, IL)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is one of those albums you need to listen to in one continuous sitting. That being said, it is a fantastic journey. Slow, melodic runs building into fuzzed out chaos and returning to tranquility, it is a formula now used by many many bands ranging from Tortoise to bands like ISIS and Pelican.
Listen to this album a few times before judging it, at first it can be hard to take the almost nonsensical lyrics serious. It will all make sense in time, as will the utter genius of this album. Essential for any music lover.
Fiery yet quiet, "Spiderland" in its best moments deserves all the praise October 29, 2007
mianfei
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Slint's 1989 debut album Tweez had been mainly generic thrash metal with a few quieter moments, but none that hinted they were to move to such a new plane as they did on "Spiderland". Indeed, as has been said many times before, they did something that had almost never been done.
The amazing thing about "Spiderland" is the way in which Brian McMahan and David Pajo are able to make their guitars sound so soft and then turn into a "loudness" (that's really the wrong word) without the slightest trace of pomp as dominated on the short songs of Tweez. On the opening track "Breadcrumb Trail" the band sets the tone with a simple hybrid of folk guitars and almost punkish drums before the electric guitar enters to create an effect that hits one in the heart much more deeply than pompous metal or stadium rock ever could. "Nosferatu Man", though danceable, is the closest of "Spiderland"'s tracks to Tweez and does not have the same impact, but with "Don Aman" Slint move further-ot than ever before. In the process they create a song in which every note seems to have the emotional effect of an entire song on most other albums. The guitar might seem like Joni Mitchell's "Coyote", but it is so much sharper and slower. "Crystalline" might be a very apt word given the way in which each note is made for maximum impact.
"Washer", the longets track on the record, does not have quite the impact of "Don, Aman", but the stark instrumentation on most of the track is not only tender and beautiful but truly passionate. "For Dinner" is a surprisingly light instrumental piece that does not have the remarkable qualities of "Spiderland"'s best material, but the closer "Good Morning Captain" is really explosive, especially at the end when McMahan screams "I miss you" with the kind of helplessness that I myself often feel when in despair.
Even if the second and fifth tracks are not up the remarkable standard of innovation and passion of the rest of the album, it is impossible not to give "Spiderland" the full five stars. A record of such genuine passion is a true treat not to be missed, and its influence on the post-rock generation through showing how music could be made more emotional than ever before is further reason to elevate "Spiderland" to a high status.
Slint's Six Song lp - "Spiderland" June 21, 2007
Chris G. (IL USA)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
'Spiderland' is currently a album that I have been listening to more often these days. It's an album I have had for about 10 years now, but it just recently made it's way back into my stereo. This time I actually like it.
'Spiderland' was first released in 1991 and it was Slint's second album after 'Tweez'
I read many reviews over the last few years, still not sure how I felt about this. Many stated this is the first True Post Rock album.
A statement in some ways I still don't get, but no other band influenced by Slint has come close to matching it's depressive, but atmospheric intensity.
There has been rumors that the band members of Slint had to be institutionalized during the making of 'Spiderland'-
The sound is very lo-fi. Filled with off key guitar distortions which are quite eerie and strange(one of the reasons why it took me so long to get into this record). Very disturbing, and full of slowed down tempo.
Brian McMahan's voice switches from grunge induced screams to mere whispers. And yes, I do prefer this album over another (landmark) album which also came out later in 1991. Although 'Spiderland' was sadly much less known and it still is.
This album truly does mix garage rock, grunge and punk and it's also full of mutters and talking. Really creepy, may be a turn off for some.
The song "Washer" is a very dark track. The protagonist knew his fate, but couldn't avoid it in the end. Despair can be heard throughout.
Opener "Breadcrumb Trail" - A truly gut-wrenching listen, dissonant guitars over McMahan's intensity. Then on through the closer, and best known track "Good Morning Captain" where the last lines are McMahan screaming "I'm in Hell...I'm in HELLL...I MISS YOU...!"
- It is hard to believe that these guys were just teenagers when making this album. A Record that inspired Math Rock (?) and bands like Explosions in the Sky and Tortoise. This is a 'must hear' listen and it should be heard on vinyl.
"In the mirror, he saw his friend." June 13, 2007
Graeme Wallis (Newcastle, England)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
Unheard of by many, revered by almost all those that own it, Slint's second (and last) album is regarded as one of the most influential alternative records ever released.
Brian McMahan's primarily spoken vocals offer a haunting juxtaposition to David Pajo's (later of Tortoise and Zwan) jaggedly ornate guitar playing, with the lyrics seemingly having little connection to the stop-start syncopation of the instrumental. From McMahan's tale of a ride on a roller-coaster with a gypsy fortune teller at a carnival in Spiderland's opener 'Breadcrumb Trail' to his reworking of Coleridge's opus The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ('Good Morning, Captain'), at the album's close, Slint's final work runs the gamut of marginal human experience, abstracted against a backdrop of jazz time signatures and 'spidery' guitars, to create a stifling air of impending doom. For all that however, 'Washer' is one of the most startlingly beautiful elegies committed to record.
Sexy, claustrophobic, unashamedly arty and conceptual, Spiderland is considered by many to be the first true 'post-rock' album, following their Steve Albini-recorded 'post-hardcore' debut, Tweez (1989).
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