Slint grew to become one of the most influential and far-reaching bands to emerge from the American underground rock community of the 1980s. Innovative and iconoclastic, the group's deft, extremist manipulations of volume, tempo, and structure cast them as clear progenitors of the post-rock movement that blossomed during the following decade. Their influence and latter-day recognition was all the more remarkable given that they only released two albums during their original run, 1989's Tweez and 1991's Spiderland.
