Spiderland is the second and final studio album by the American rock band Slint. It was released on March 27, 1991, as the band’s first release on the independent label Touch and Go Records. The album’s alien sound anticipated the emergence of math rock and post-rock in the mid-1990s.
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Spiderland is the second and final studio album by the American rock band Slint. It was released on March 27, 1991, as the band’s first release on the independent label Touch and Go Records. The album’s alien sound anticipated the emergence of math rock and post-rock in the mid-1990s. Since 2005, Slint reunited for three tours performing the album live in its entirety. A remastered version of the album and a deluxe box set with bonus material were released in 2014. Rumors circulated that at least one member of Slint had been checked into a psychiatric hospital during the recording of Spiderland. All stories are reputed to have been difficult for the members of the band and were according to an article in Select, one more piece of evidence supporting the theory that band members had to be periodically institutionalized during the album’s completion. Slint formed in Louisville, Kentucky in 1986. The band’s debut album, the Steve Albini-produced Tweez, was released in 1989 on the group’s self-owned label Jennifer Hartman Records and Tapes. By the time they recorded Spiderland in late 1990, they had developed a complex, idiosyncratic sound. The vocals alternate between spoken word, singing, and shouting. The narrative lyrics evoke moods of unease, loneliness, and despair. At first, Spiderland prompted little critical notice and negligible sales. Over the next two decades, it sold at a slow but steady pace and its influence grew.
It attracted a cult following, and critics recognized it as a milestone of experimental rock. It has been described as a combination of \”scratchy guitars, thumping bass lines and hard hitting drums\”. The band broke up shortly before the album was released, and the group has since reformed. The group has released a live album of songs from Spiderland, which includes a version of “Good Morning, Captain” from the EP Slint, which included a new version of “Rhoda” from Tweez. The live album has been released in its entire entirety in 2014, with a bonus CD of bonus material, including a live performance of “Nosferatu Man” and “Breadcrumb Trail” from “Washer” The band has also released an instrumental extended play, “Slint,” which included the song “Nostalgic”, which was recorded during the summer of 1990. The EP, which would not be released until 1994, was a departure fromTweez’s sound and reflected the band’s new musical direction. In the early 1990s, the band began writing together for their next record, creating six new songs which the band practiced throughout theSummer of 1990 to record. On July 14, 1990, two weeks after the release of Tweez,. Slint played a show supported by Crain and King Kong at which they debuted early versions of four songs. On June 23, 1990,. they performed nearly finalized instrumental renditions of the songs fromSpiderland during a concert at the Kentucky Theater.
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