@@ileutur6863 how can you hear washer and good morning, captain (and maybe breadcrumb trail and for dinner...) and not see this as post rock? there might actually be a weaker case for spiderland being math rock lol
@@ileutur6863 similar to Talk Talk or Bark Psychosis it’s post rock in theory moreso than the genre that came about with Mogwai, Tortoise, Sigur Ros, GY!BE and into the 2000’s. There’s other similar bands from 91-96 that fall into the first category too, like Pram and Disco Inferno, Cul de Sac or Moonshake. It’s a hard genre to define there’s electronic stuff like Hood or something like Dirty Three or Swans.
This album never gets old. The jangly guitars on Breadcrumb Trail, odd times signatures and distortion on Nosferatu Man, and extremely creepy instrumental on Washer literally kept my autistic ass hooked for 40 whole minutes. It’s only the 4th time I’ve listened to an entire album during a stream and not felt like I was redoing my 8th grade final exam. As a hardcore post rock fan, this is a certified post rock classic.
Some girl I matched with on Tinder told me to listen to this album. She unmatched me a day later but at least I got a good album recommendation out of it.
People generally like "For Dinner..." the least, but for me it is one of my most listened songs on the album. When i was a kid we'd go to my grandmas place up in the middle of hills, surrounded by fields, creeks, and forest, and there was a quarry just down the road. For Dinner is a PERFECT musical repressntation of sinister dark green evening turning black, when everything is completely still. The mood of that track is just desolate, the low level sounds of dry creekbeds and being lost in wilderness at night. Washer aswell is completely entrenched in that eerie stillness. Theres is no other album that captures exactly how i feel about my grandmothers house/surrounding forest. At night the landscape goes impenetrable black and in the house the darkness suffocates the light.
This album changed my life. I’m a musician and when I heard this, it opened my eyes to a new way of writing music. Without spiderland, I don’t know what kind of music I’d be making. This album is just a perfect listen all the way through, especially with the right vibes around me.
Once I started writing seriously, it was already way weirder and darker than my previous band (in which I did no writing), but hearing this album cemented that style for me. 1000/10 album
this album is really helping through some tough times right now. it didn't hit for me on the first listen, but its a definite grower worth coming back over and over again and the stories and mood just resonate more and more deeply. don aman, washer, and good morning captain are absolutely amazing, this album deserves to be preserved for the aliens to come to earth after we've been wiped out.
One of the best, for sure. With respect to the album's genre tag - it is not that easy to pin it down. These are the genres that could claim "Spiderland": math rock, post-hardcore, slowcore, emo, post-rock, indie rock. It just shows how influential and experimental it is. But post-rock is probably a good box, especially early post-rock is about pushing boundaries, which this album does definitely.
It's post-rock from before post-rock was a defined style. Post-rock meant boundary pushing atmospheric rock then - due to bands like Talk Talk, Slint and later Mogwai or even later GYBE, post-rock is now a very particular sound
@@pantsnjacket381 It's a debatable genre tag, but in light of the relatively early stage the genre was in at the time of release of this album, the case can be made imo.
brad in a nutshell: "Yeah I think this is still one of the top 40 most acclaimed albums of all time on rate your music" *starts listening* "wow............. this is surprisingly GOOD"
I haven’t found any slint clones. People say bcnr is a slint clone but I just see some influence, I don’t think they actually sound like Slint. Do you have any recommendations?
@John Oliveira The first one that comes to mind is the song " Swimming the Channel Versus Driving the Chunnel" by Botch, granted the rest of the album sounds nothing like this song but it's still a very obvious Slint homge
My first listening of this album occured in the middle of a panic attack. As the album went on, I could feel my mind clearing, my breathing steadying, my world brightening. Finally, someone expressing how I TRULY feel. By the end, I was in tears, salty droplets streaming down my face endlessly. I felt complete. Absolutely gorgeous.
Slint is my 2nd favorite record ever for a good reason, it's a masterpiece. Glad you've checked it out now and I'm excited to see how you think of it :D
I saw your review of this on AOTY without realising that it was a quote from the Rolling Stone interview lol Also I can't believe you didn't press the "The car is on fire and there's no driver at the wheel" button at some point
I think this album stands out for having such a perfect structure. It sets you up with 2 absolute bangers and follows them up with a very long sequence of 3 slowburners, each one descending further into darkness in their own way, leading up to a bombastic closer
The first time I heard Good Morning, Captain I think my jaw was dropped for the entire song. I think it was the first post rock song I ever heard, and it just blew my mind that music could even sound like that.
Lyrics were a last minute thing, basically made up in a car before recording. Steve albini was thinking it would be a purely instrumental albim, lyrics were added not long before recording
This album sounds BAD? That's the first time I've ever heard those words muttered. Not a good selection of words when talking about this force of nature
This is an event record for all music, post rock and the 90s. Not only is it at least 10 years ahead but this record defines a new (perhaps irreplicable) formula of instrumental composition. 40 unmissable minutes, unique and above all, but not least, 40 minutes that rank among the most successful experiences in exploring new music, without resorting to stupid and monotonous stereotypes or current fashions: 9.5/10
This is an excellent album, Slint was inspired heavily by King Crimson when making this LP, and even then they managed to take the progressive sound and make it their own. Like the Velvet Underground, they were a band that very few people listened to, but every person that did made a band. 'Breadcrumb Trail' - Good exposition to the band's sound. 7/10 'Nosferatu Man' - The motifs the band likes to use are expanded upon here. 8.5/10 'Don, A Man' - The opening song to my nightwalk playlist. Slint continues to spare itself but you can feel that the tension is rising. To me, I've always felt that this album symbolizes one's struggle with violent emotional impulses represented through the band's very sparing use of noise. Throughout the first half of the album, everything is very bleak and reserved, but not for much longer. 9/10 'Washer' - You can begin to see the musical motifs begin to develop fully into something less reminiscent of spoken word. The band goes for the Larks Tongues in Aspic-esque blitzkrieg of noise to really open up the record and catch the listener's attention. At this point they've spent a good 20 minutes teasing and lulling the listener, and as the guitar fades back into the lulling minimalist rhythm that started the song, the band has now shown its hand on its true violent capabilities. 10/10 'For Dinner...' - This song basically just spaces the two big compositions on the album, nothing wrong with a bit of an interlude. 5/10 'Good Morning, Captain' - Excellent use of buildup, I mean you know what's coming with the end. The tension ultimately arcs into a complete breakdown of all order that the band has spent 90% of the album at this point building up. It's an overall excellent use of emotion, and the payoff is worth it. Apparently the vocalist drove himself to the verge of fainting recording the final part. Naturally, it ends the album, as it should. Nothing more needs to be said or done. 10/10 Everything about this album becomes even crazier once you realize all of the musicians in this band were very young, like closer to 16 than 25. The fact that they were able to compose such a mature album at their age in contrast to the gravely embarrassing 30-something year old pop stars who target teenagers and talk about breakups and being popular in high school is only a testament to this album's longevity. While this was their last LP, it definitely influenced a generation of musicians. 9.8/10.
I really hope he does Laughing Stock, eventually That, Slints Spiderland, and Tortoise's Milions Now Living Will Never Die are the holy trinity of early post-rock
There's a band from Virginia called Kepone that features Mike Bishop (one of the founding members of GWAR) as the bassist/vocalist. They made three records during their lifespan, with various influences on each release. However, their first LP, 'Ugly Dance', has a really obvious Slint influence painted over the whole thing, as well as oddly well-fitting punk, southern rock and folk influences. Check it out, you won't regret it!
The thumbnail for this video is goated. Also, this was the first time I heard this album was listening along on stream, and i've come back a couple times just to feel its emotions again.
I remember almost leaving my nearest Bull Moose (think Newbury Comics but way smaller and way cooler) before seeing this CD in the corner of my eye hidden away on a shelf and just being blown away by seeing this in person and not as a mythical youtube upload
on the topic of the moment at 0:12 to 0:15 usually when i stop interacting with friends i just unfriend them cause i doubt they wanna have a friend who rarely interacts with them so.
My first time hearing Don Aman will always be one of my most cherished memories with music. Such a haunting and immersive sonic journey. Hit me so hard the first time I heard it
@@j.prt.979 It’s hard to avoid completely but in the future, brad can make more of an effort to avoid hearing albums that might make for a good reaction video in the future
