Slint Spiderland 2017-10-20 with its live crowd noises

with its live crowd noises over killer bass work is reminiscent of Bernard & Nile’s “Chic Cheer”

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The Waters Sisters (background vocals)

Slint Spiderland 2017-10-20 with its live crowd noisesRecorded from August to October 1990. If Slint's debut, 1989's Tweez, was one of the earliest salvos in what came to be known as post rock, their second album, 1991's Spiderland was where the band pushed their most radical ideas forward and created a touchstone, working with dynamics that made the silences every bit as much presence as the guitars and drums, manipulating space and time as they stretched out and juggled time signatures, and conjuring