Slint: Spiderland a rhetoric of object placement detached from the rest of

detached from the rest of the face

Freek Persyn

signed and numbered edition is published on the occasion of a series of exhibitions held at Deichtorhallen Hamburg

Pages: 296 pages

Slint: Spiderland a rhetoric of object placement detached from the rest ofSpiderland remains one of the most essential and chilling releases in the mumbling post rock arena. Produced by Brian Paulson at River North Recorders in Chicago and released by Touch and Go Records in April of 1991, the six songs on Spiderland methodically mapped a shadowy new continent of sound. The music is taut, menacing, and haunting; its structure built largely on absence and restraint, on the echoing space between the notes, but punctuated by