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Infobox musical artist|name = Slint|image = Slint 2007.jpg|caption = Slint at Pitchfork Music Festival , July 13, 2007|background = group_or_band|alias =|origin = Louisville, Kentucky , United States |Instruments =|genre = Post-rock Math rock Sadcore Post-hardcore cite web |url= http://altmusic.about.com/od/1990s/fr/slint.htm |title= Review of the Definitive Alternative Album Spiderland |author= Carew, Anthony |publisher= About.com |quote= ... ''But, the second album by the post-hardcore Kentuckians sure didn't 'kick' anything; its influence rather devoid of immediacy. ... |accessdate=1 November 2010 |Occupation(s) =|years_active = 1986–1991, 2005, 2007|label = Touch and Go Records|Touch and Go |Notable_albums =|Notable_songs =| associated_acts = Tortoise (band)|Tortoise , Papa M , Solution Unknown , Squirrel Bait , The For Carnation , Maurice , Bush League (band)|Bush League , Dead Child , Palace Brothers , Bastro , Evergreen (band)|Evergreen , The Breeders , King Kong (band)|King Kong , Crain (band)|Crain , The Glasspack , Shipping News , Parlour |website =|current_members =|past_members = Brian McMahan David Pajo Britt Walford Ethan Buckler Todd Brashear Slint was an United States|American Rock music|rock band consisting of Brian McMahan (guitar and vocals), David Pajo (guitar), Britt Walford (drums), Todd Brashear (bass on Spiderland ) and Ethan Buckler (bass on Tweez ). They formed in Louisville, Kentucky|Louisville , Kentucky , United States in 1986 and disbanded following the recording of their second album, Spiderland , in 1991.
The band reformed to play a number of live shows in 2005 and 2007, though they released no new material.
History
Walford and McMahan began performing music together at an early age, forming Languid and Flaccid with Ned Oldham (later of The Anomoanoan ) while still in middle school.cite web|url= http://www.viceland.com/int/v10n5/htdocs/something.php |title=SOMETHING LIKE AN ANOMOANON - Is Something Like Will Oldham - Vice Magazine |publisher=Viceland.com |date= |accessdate=2010-11-20cite web|url= http://www.popmatters.com/music/features/060310-davidgrubbs.shtml |title=PopMatters Music Feature & #124; Louisville Born, Brooklyn Based |publisher=Popmatters.com |date= |accessdate=2010-11-20cite web|url= http://louisvillepunk.awardspace.com/Photos/LanguidFlaccid00.html |title=back |publisher=Louisvillepunk.awardspace.com |date= |accessdate=2010-11-20 Walford and McMahan later played together in the seminal Louisville punk band Squirrel Bait , though Walford left the band following their first recording session.cite web|url= http://history.louisvillehardcore.com/index.php? title=Maurice |title=Maurice - Louisville Punk/Hardcore History |publisher=History.louisvillehardcore.com |date=2010-02-27 |accessdate=2010-11-20 Prior to Slint, Pajo and Walford (and, briefly, McMahan) were also in the band Maurice with future members of Kinghorse . Walford, Pajo, and Buckler played their first show together in 1985 under the name Small Tight Dirty Tufts of Hair; BEADS .cite web|url= http://mog.com/jsguntzel/blog/21046 |title=Invisible Histories: Slint (Part 2) |publisher=Mog.com |date= |accessdate=2010-11-20
Slint's first album Tweez was recorded by Steve Albini in 1987 and released in obscurity on the Jennifer Hartman Records label in 1989. It was followed two years later by the critically acclaimed Spiderland ,cite web|url= http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/5923-top-100-albums-of-the-1990s/9/ |title=Staff Lists: Top 100 Albums of the 1990s |publisher=Pitchfork |date=2003-11-17 |accessdate=2010-11-20 released on Touch and Go Records and recorded by Brian Paulson .Cite journal | last = Parker | first = Chris | title = Brian Paulson: Studio aethetics | journal = The Independent Weekly | date = 2005-02-09 | url = http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content? oid=oid%3A23657 | postscript = Considered a seminal work,cite web|last=Riggs |first=Richard |url= http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4136138 |title=Slowcore Week: Slint and Codeine - a shared musical language? / In Depth // Drowned In Sound |publisher=Drownedinsound.com |date=2009-02-17 |accessdate=2010-11-20 Spiderland is an album characterized by dark, Syncopation|syncopated rhythms, sparse guitar lines and haunting subject matter. The record's impact was such that many fans and critics have suggested it is the first true post-rock album, helping to usher in a new wave of bands seeking a move away from the unfettered aggression of hardcore punk but not its underlying ethic. The cover of Spiderland is from a series of photos of the band taken by the Louisville actor/singer-musician Will Oldham . Spiderland culminates in the baleful "Good Morning, Captain", perhaps their most recognized track (it would later feature on the soundtrack to the Larry Clark film Kids (film)|Kids ). Touch and Go Records reissued Tweez in 1993. Finally, in 1994 a brief untitled Extended play|EP was released after the band broke up. This two-song record was actually recorded in 1989 and was originally intended to be released as a 12" single on Jennifer Hartman Records. Original copies of the Tweez LP included a flyer advertisement for the 12" as an insert. However, Slint signed to Touch & Go Records before it was sent to press and the master tapes were shelved. It contained a previously unreleased track ("Glenn") and a reinterpretation of "Rhoda" from Tweez .
Members of Slint have since appeared in a number of bands. In 2009, former guitarist David Pajo performed with Yeah Yeah Yeahs as a live back-up musician. He briefly played bass in Interpol (band)|Interpol , and performs under the moniker PAJO and occasionally with his band Papa M .cite news| url= http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/06/arts/music/06all.html? scp=3& sq=Jarmusch& st=cse | work=The New York Times | first=Ben | last=Ratliff | title=Iggy and the Stooges at All Tomorrow's Parties | date=2010-09-05 Pajo has also been a member of Dead Child , Tortoise (band)|Tortoise , Will Oldham|Palace , The For Carnation , and the short-lived Billy Corgan -fronted rock band Zwan . Guitarist Brian McMahan formed The For Carnation in 1994 and also played with Will Oldham in Palace. Britt Walford played drums in Evergreen (band)|Evergreen , and for The Breeders under the pseudonym Shannon Doughton on the album Pod (The Breeders album)|Pod and as Mike Hunt on the Safari (Breeders EP)|Safari EP. Ethan Buckler plays in King Kong (band)|King Kong (the original line up of Slint makes up King Kong on the 1989 7" "Movie Star").
Nearly fifteen years after disbanding, three members of Slint — Brian McMahan, David Pajo , and Britt Walford — reunited to curate the 2005 All Tomorrow's Parties (music festival)|All Tomorrow's Parties (ATP) music festival in Camber Sands , England . Also in 2005, Slint played a number of shows in the U.S. and in Europe. http://www.descendo.com/slint/ Descendo.com Though they insisted the reunion was short-term, the band regrouped once again in 2007 to perform Spiderland in its entirety in Barcelona as part of the Primavera Sound Festival , in London as part of the ATP ''Don't Look Back'' series of shows, as well as at a handful of dates in Europe, the U.S. (at Chicago's Pitchfork Music Festival, the Showbox in Seattle, and the Henry Fonda Theatre in Hollywood), and Canada. In addition to performing the album and the EP Slint (EP)|Slint , they also debuted a new composition called "King's Approach". http://www.touchandgorecords.com/news/detail.php? id=238 update Slint undertook no further recording or performance activity after their 2007 tour.
Members
Brian McMahan (guitar & vocals)
David Pajo (guitar)
Todd Brashear (bass)
Britt Walford (drums, guitar, vocals)
Live members 2005, 2007
Michael McMahan (guitar)
Todd Cook (bass)
Gavin Quinn
Joey McGonaghy (lead pianist)
Former
Ethan Buckler (bass on Tweez)
Discography
Albums
Year !! Album !! Label !! Additional information
1989
1991
first= Martin C.
last= Strong
year= 2000
title= The Great Rock Discography
edition= 5th
publisher= Mojo Books
location= Edinburgh
pages= 893–894
isbn= 1-84195-017-3
Other
Year !! Release !! Label !! Additional information
1994
1995
References
Reflist
External links
commons category
http://web.archive.org/web/20070305213852/ http://www.slint.us/ www.slint.us Official Site (archive as of March 5 2007)
http://www.touchandgorecords.com/bands/band.php? id=70 Slint Touch and Go records band page
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