138; Vinyl LP). Raghav Gana wrote: You only talk about the unorthodox music in your Spiderland review. Tweez, an Album by Slint. Slint’s Spiderland will be one of those records that the people who know it, will remember it for a long time. Slint basically combine scratchy guitars, thumping bass lines, and hard hitting drums. Slint have achieved the nirvana of alternative rock, wedding masterful playing, thoughtful composing and lyrical expression to a degree seldom reached by popular music. In 1991, teenage band Slint recorded Spiderland, a brooding, sinister record that invented post-rock and influenced a generation of musicians. Shop Vinyl and CDs and complete your Slint collection. Boomkat Product Review: The first release of the hugely influential Kentucky based Slint, 'Tweez' (along with 'Spiderland') has been reissued at mid-price and, as the first exponent of post-rock, is both an important musical document and a bloody good listen. Review by /u/aceguy123 Tweez is a record that revolutionized rock and roll. By 1995, Slint started turning up on major-label-issued movie soundtracks; by ’96, Gavin Rossdale was dialing up Steve Albini—who recorded Tweez —to … Dave Simpson finds out what inspired a … I will never forget the images of REM that plagued me for those seven hours, and I owe it to this record entirely. AllMusic Review by John Bush Tweez is a fine, if bizarre recording, often switching from bass-led rhythm to rhythm in the same song. Spiderland is the second and final studio album by the American rock band Slint.It was released on March 27, 1991, through Touch and Go Records.Featuring dramatically alternating dynamics and vocals ranging from spoken word to shouting, the album contains narrative lyrics that emphasize alienation. Slint Articles and Media. Discover releases, reviews, credits, songs, and more about Slint - Tweez at Discogs. Instead of singing, bits of dialogue, sound effects, and spoken lyrics are used. Although SLINT is much more known for their second groundbreaking album "Spiderland" which paved the way for the whole plethora of post-rock acts that followed, their oft snubbed debut TWEEZ hardly gets an ounce of recognition and serves as merely a footnote in comparison with the behemoth followup that is universally recognized as the veritable intermediate that connected Talk Talk's initial post-rock … Slint shows how what they started is limitless as to what direction post-rock can go and they began with a strong starting block. It blends together punk, indie, math-rock, and even some minor post-rock elements make their way into the music. Slint has engineered some of the most dissonant, hectically unsettling music that I've ever heard, and I should have known better than to go into Tweez for its first session without a more eloquent prompt. While Spiderland may be the better album and a major innovation in its own right, I think Tweez might actually be the larger leap forward in rock. And when he found it, he stayed with it. Featured peformers: Brian McMahan (guitar, vocals), Pajo (guitar), Ethan Buckler (aka_text {bass guitar} role_id 1075.aka_text), Britt Walford (drums), Steve Albini (engineer), Steve Albini (producer). Tweez is a music studio album recording by SLINT (Prog Related/Progressive Rock) released in 1989 on cd, lp / vinyl and/or cassette. Its quiet, yet fierce passion was totally unlike either the overproduced pop of the 1980s or the pompous grunge and …

Crucially, Melody Maker published a review of Spiderland by Steve Albini in which he used it as a stick to beat the complacency of the American music scene, and predicted that “in 10 years it will be a landmark”. Overall, Tweez is an album that is worth your attention and worthy of a higher status in rock history. Slint was that rare band willing to play just one or two notes at a time and sometimes nothing at all. The guitars are harsh, but not especially fast. Slint created something new when they released Tweez and you can�t really put it under any genre of music. After Tweez sent kids to dust off their metronomes in '89, Buckler split with math-rock progenitors Slint to search for a simpler groove.

Genres: Noise Rock, Math Rock, Post-Hardcore. The first release of the hugely influential Kentucky based Slint, 'Tweez' (along with 'Spiderland') has been reissued at mid-price and, as the first exponent of post-rock, is both an important musical document and a bloody good listen. Released in July 1989 on Jennifer Hartman (catalog no. With very good reason, Slint's 1991 swansong Spiderland has been cited consistently as one of the most important releases of the 1990s. Their only other recording, 1989’s Tweez hints at their genius, but only a couple of the tracks have anything like the staying power of Spiderland. Presenting part one of our photo-happy, interview-accented three-part set of P4k Fest features.