Spiderland (remastered)
by Slint
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1991
The quiet parts feel suffocating; the loud parts feel tectonic. The album builds tension through restraint rather than release. Quiet passages stretch uncomfortably long before guitars crash in, not as catharsis but as escalation. Brian McMahan half-speaks many of the lyrics, making songs like “Good Morning, Captain” feel disturbingly intimate. One can trace an entire lineage of post-rock and slow-core back to these six eerie, perfect tracks.
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