{"title":"Slint","description":"\u003cp\u003eAll \u003cstrong\u003eSlint\u003c\/strong\u003e albums available at Música Autónoma: vinyl, new releases, and shipping from Spain. Reissues, limited editions, and new rock releases; the catalog is updated daily.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"slint-spiderland-lp","title":"Slint - Spiderland - LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e Touch \u0026amp; Go\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRegular edition back in stock!  More known for its frequent name-checks than its actual music, Spiderland remains one of the most essential and chilling releases in the mumbling post-rock arena. Even casual listeners will be able to witness an experimental power-base that the American underground has come to treasure. Indeed, the lumbering quiet-loud motif has been lifted by everybody from Lou Barlow to Mogwai, the album's emotional gelidity has done more to move away from prog-rock mistakes than almost any of the band's subsequent disciples, and it's easy to hear how the term \"Slint dynamics\" has become an indie categorization of its own. Most interestingly, however, is how even a seething angularity to songs like \"Nosferatu Man\" (disquieting, vampirish stop-starts) or \"Good Morning, Captain\" (a murmuring nod to \"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner\") certainly signaled the beginning of the end for the band. Recording was intense, traumatic, and one more piece of evidence supporting the theory that band members had to be periodically institutionalized during the completion of the album. Spiderland remains, though, not quite the insurmountable masterpiece its reputation may suggest. Brian McMahan softly speaks\/screams his way through the asphyxiated music and too often evokes strangled pity instead of outright empathy. Which probably speaks more about the potential dangers of pretentious post-rock than the frigid musical climate of the album itself. Surely, years later, Spiderland is still a strong, slightly overrated, compelling piece of investigational despair that is a worthy asset to most any experimentalist's record collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MUNSTERAMA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55552852853063,"sku":"MUNSTERAMA-9704","price":54.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0805\/0475\/0407\/files\/0e7329753fcb7a9d471040c927ceee78.jpg?v=1792858180"},{"product_id":"slint-tweez-lp","title":"Slint - Tweez - LP","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReissue, Remastered, 180 grams\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith \u003cem\u003eTweez\u003c\/em\u003e comes a rather unfair situation: for years it remained in the shadow of \u003cem\u003eSpiderland\u003c\/em\u003e, as if it were merely the rough draft of what came next. And yes, it is evident that here they are still searching for the language they would eventually perfect on the next album, but reducing \u003cem\u003eTweez\u003c\/em\u003e to “the precursor to Spiderland” means missing out on a truly rare and completely unique piece of Slint’s history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe first thing that strikes you is how unaccommodating it is. It is not easy to get into. It sounds dry, strange, with that Steve Albini production that turns every drum beat into something almost uncomfortable and every guitar into a kind of mathematical saw. There are moments when it seems as though the band is about to fall apart and, precisely because of that, everything has a brutal tension. It is a twisted, youthful, and almost insolent album. As if four kids had decided to dismantle hardcore from the inside without asking anyone’s permission.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eListened to today, it also has something fascinating: all the seeds of what would later explode into post-hardcore, math rock, and even much of 90s post-rock are already there, but here everything still appears in its wild state. There is no dark, cinematic narrative like that of \u003cem\u003eSpiderland\u003c\/em\u003e; in \u003cem\u003eTweez\u003c\/em\u003e there is more noise, more chaos, and a constant sense of listening to a band discovering its own personality while recording. And that gives it a freshness that many “foundational” albums have lost over time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is also one of those albums that usually grows on you over the years. Many people come to it late, after having burned through \u003cem\u003eSpiderland\u003c\/em\u003e, and discover that this debut has something rawer and more addictive. This happens quite a bit in forums and among collectors: at first it is bewildering, but it ends up becoming that album you return to when you want to listen to Slint without the mythology, still covered in mud, still dangerous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd perhaps that is why this edition makes so much sense in a collection. It is not the obvious album that everyone looks for first. It is the one that appears afterward, when you have already crossed the threshold and want to understand where it all came from. An imperfect, uncomfortable, and ahead-of-its-time album, one of those not made to be liked at first, but to stay with you. Having \u003cem\u003eTweez\u003c\/em\u003e on the shelf is not just completing Slint’s discography; it is bringing home the exact moment a band still did not know it was changing the rules.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"BCORE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55553251934535,"sku":"BCORE-39723","price":50.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0805\/0475\/0407\/files\/tweez.jpg?v=1792864287"}],"url":"https:\/\/hcpunk.com\/en\/collections\/slint.oembed","provider":"MÚSICA AUTÓNOMA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}