Spiderland * by Slint

Pros: A superb album from start to finish
Cons: Perhaps too downbeat in its themes for some listeners

Back in the late 1990s, I would frequent the local record store every week, digging through the "alternative" section to find an album or two to blow my paycheck on.  Inevitably, I would stumble across (and even more inevitably, purchase) some of ...

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No album I own comes close to capturing 3 a.m. as Slint's swan song, Spiderland. A drugged 3 a.m., where you feel a bit fragile and needy, a bit frightened and floaty, and fulfilled. To test this theory out, I woke up early this morning and played the ...

Pros: To put it simply, 39 minutes of incredible rock.
Cons: "For Dinner..." seems to only serve the purpose as a divider, but a good one.

I know very little about the band called Slint. The only music I have heard from this band is from their masterpiece of an album known as "Spiderland" The band keeps things mysterious with the album art and packaging. For starters, the disk itself is ...

Pros: Loud and fast, soft and slow, this band can do it all
Cons: The band no longer exists, so you can't see them live, a pity

As the title of this review suggests, Slint, the now defunct Louisville, Kentucky band formed out of the ashes of the Husker Du-influenced Squirrel Bait, are about as innovative as they come, almost single-handedly inventing an entire genre of post-punk...

Pros: the finest album of one of the decade's finest bands
Cons: somewhat quirky and initially opaque, but worth the effort of cracking open.

Slint knew when to say what, and what to leave unsaid. Although this album is made up of six fairly lengthy songs, it has a beautifully simple, methodical and understated quality to it- this is no high falutin' concept album. The songs are made up mostly...