![]() Thirty years after its release, it remains an unclassifiable triumph of rock moodcraft - its literally soft-spoken vocals and skillful play of harsh and delicate textures often imitated but never rivaled. Spiderland eventually earned a place in the pantheon of cult-favorite Nineties albums, and became a hallowed influence for everyone from Bush to Mogwai and Pavement. ![]() But somehow, in the years after Spiderland came out - sporting a black-and-white cover photo showing the four members swimming together in a lake, with scenic cliffs behind them and only their heads visible above the water - their “nerd dude music” slowly but steadily made its way out into the world. ![]() The band didn’t have much of an audience they’d only played a little more than two dozen shows during their four years together, never venturing further west than Kansas City. Before Spiderland’ s release, McMahan decided for a myriad of reasons that he no longer wanted to devote his life to Slint. We may not be able to do it on this record, but we’ve got to break out of this somehow.'” “I mean, despite our, ‘It will be epic! And appeal to all! Across all cultures!,’ it was confronting the reality of, ‘Man, we are such nerds. “There was, by that point, I think a fair recognition from all of the guys that, like, ‘Wow, this is totally some nerd dude music,'” McMahan says, looking back on the album, which they released the following March under the title Spiderland.
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