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{{short description|American rock band}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name              = Slint
| image             = Slint-1.jpg
| image_upright     = 1.2
| caption           = Slint in 2007. Left to right: Michael McMahan, Matt Jencik, Brian McMahan, Britt Walford (obscured), and David Pajo.
| alias             = 
| origin            = [[Louisville, Kentucky]], U.S.
| genre             = {{flatlist|
*[[Post-rock]]<ref name="clash">{{cite web|last=Murray|first=Robin|date=July 23, 2013|title=Slint To Reform!|url=https://www.clashmusic.com/news/slint-to-reform|access-date=July 23, 2013|website=[[Clash (magazine)|Clash]]}}</ref>
*[[math rock]]<ref>{{cite journal|last=Weingarten|first=Christopher R.|date=November 2002|title=Isis - Oceanic review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LyoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA67|journal=[[CMJ]]|issue=107|page=67}}</ref>
*[[post-hardcore]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Carew|first=Anthony|title=Review of the Definitive Alternative Album Spiderland|url=http://altmusic.about.com/od/1990s/fr/slint.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303232935/https://altmusic.about.com/od/1990s/fr/slint.htm|archive-date=March 3, 2016|access-date=November 1, 2010|publisher=[[About.com]]}}</ref>
*{{nowrap|[[indie rock]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Maginnis|first=Tom|title=Nosferatu Man - Slint {{!}} Song Info|url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/nosferatu-man-mt0000860534|access-date=January 30, 2022|publisher=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref>}}
}}
| discography       = [[Slint discography]]
| years_active      = {{flatlist|
*1986–1991<ref>{{cite web|last=Ankeny|first=Jason|title=Slint Biography, Songs, & Albums|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/slint-mn0000751604/biography|access-date=February 19, 2013|publisher=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref> 
*1992
*1994<ref>{{cite web|last=Cooke|first=Robert|date=March 11, 2014|title="I'm trying to find my way home":DiS meets Slint (Part Two)|url=https://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4147507-i-m-trying-to-find-my-way-home---dis-meets-slint-part-two|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104021151/https://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4147507-i-m-trying-to-find-my-way-home---dis-meets-slint-part-two|archive-date=November 4, 2016|access-date=November 3, 2016|website=[[Drowned in Sound]]}}</ref><ref name="ReferenceA">Tennent, Scott. "Spiderland." Slint's Spiderland (33 1/3). N.p.: Bloomberg, n.d. 113. Print. 33 1/3.</ref> 
*2005
*2007
*2013–2014}}
| label             = {{flatlist|
*[[Touch and Go Records|Touch and Go]]
*Jennifer Hartman Records
}}
| spinoffs          = {{flatlist|
*[[The For Carnation]]
*[[King Kong (band)|King Kong]]
}}
| spinoff_of        = {{hlist|[[Squirrel Bait]]|Maurice}}
| current_members   = 
| past_members      = * [[Brian McMahan]]
* [[David Pajo]]
* [[Britt Walford]]
* [[Ethan Buckler]]
* Todd Brashear
}}

'''Slint''' was an [[America]]n [[Rock music|rock]] band from [[Louisville, Kentucky|Louisville]], [[Kentucky]], formed in 1986 after the dissolution of two local bands, [[Squirrel Bait]] and Maurice.{{sfn|Tennent|2011|pp=53, 56}} It initially consisted of guitarist-vocalist [[Brian McMahan]], guitarist [[David Pajo]], drummer-vocalist [[Britt Walford]] and bassist [[Ethan Buckler]]. Though little known during their original run, they gained a [[cult following]] and acclaim as one of the pioneers of [[post-rock]] and [[math rock]].

Slint's debut album, ''[[Tweez]],'' was recorded by [[Steve Albini]] and released in 1989 on their [[record label]], Jennifer Hartman Records and Tapes.{{snf|Ankeny}} Buckler left out of dissatisfaction with ''Tweez'' and was replaced by Todd Brashear.{{sfn|Sarig|1998|p=266}} In 1991, Slint released their second album, ''[[Spiderland]]'', on the independent label [[Touch and Go Records]]. They broke up prior to its release. ''Spiderland'' eventually became one of the most acclaimed [[indie rock]] albums of the 1990s.

After Slint broke up, Touch and Go records released [[Slint (EP)|an untitled EP]] recorded before their debut. After sporadic reunions, Slint disbanded again in 2014.

==History==
===Pre-Slint===
Walford and McMahan met in their [[pre-teen]]s and attended [[the Brown School]], a [[Jefferson County Public Schools (Kentucky)|Louisville public school]] founded on a pedagogy of self-directed learning.<ref>{{cite web|title=About - J. Graham Brown School|url=http://www.mybrownschool.org/about|website=www.mybrownschool.org|access-date=January 7, 2017|archive-date=January 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180102012809/http://www.mybrownschool.org/about|url-status=dead}}</ref> They began performing music together at an early age, forming the Languid and Flaccid with Ned Oldham (later of The Anomoanon) while still in middle school.<ref>{{cite web|last=Johnson|first=Jeff|date=November 30, 2003|title=Something Like An Anomoanon|url=http://www.viceland.com/int/v10n5/htdocs/something.php|access-date=November 20, 2010|website=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]]|archive-date=October 19, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019022004/http://www.vice.com/read/something-v10n5|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=back|url=http://louisvillepunk.awardspace.com/Photos/LanguidFlaccid00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170108104435/https://louisvillepunk.awardspace.com/Photos/LanguidFlaccid00.html|archive-date=January 8, 2017|access-date=November 20, 2010|publisher=Louisvillepunk.awardspace.com}}</ref> In their teens Walford and McMahan played together in the seminal Louisville punk band [[Squirrel Bait]]. Walford left the band following their first recording session while McMahan went on to tour and record Squirrel Bait's two albums before the band's dissolution in 1987.<ref>{{cite web|title=Maurice&nbsp;– Louisville Punk/Hardcore History|url=https://history.louisvillehardcore.com/index.php?title=Maurice|access-date=November 20, 2010|publisher=History.louisvillehardcore.com}}</ref>

Pajo and Walford (and, briefly, McMahan) were in the punk/prog-metal band Maurice with future members of Kinghorse. After being influenced by the music of the [[Minutemen (band)|Minutemen]], Pajo and Walford's musical direction became too obtuse for the other members of Maurice, who parted ways. Maurice's later material would form the basis of some of Slint's early compositions.<ref name="Bangs, 2014">{{cite AV media|last=Bangs|first=Lance|title=Breadcrumb Trail|date=2014|publisher=Touch and Go|location=Chicago}}</ref>

=== 1986–1989: Founding, Recording of ''Tweez'', and Ethan Buckler's departure ===
Slint formed in the summer of 1986.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/439361-Tweez/images|title=Images for Slint - Tweez|publisher=Discogs|access-date=April 16, 2018}}</ref> Walford and Pajo were joined by the slightly older Buckler (age 18 at the time) for a show for a [[Unitarian Universalist]] congregation on November 2; performing under the name Small Tight Dirty Tufts of Hair, most of the congregation left during the band's first two songs.<ref>{{cite web|title=Invisible Histories: Slint (Part 2)|url=http://mog.com/jsguntzel/blog/21046|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120922125200/https://mog.com/jsguntzel/blog/21046|archive-date=September 22, 2012|access-date=November 20, 2010|publisher=[[MOG (online music)|MOG]]}}</ref> They were soon joined by McMahan and named themselves Slint after one of Walford's pet fish.<ref name="Bangs, 2014" />

Slint's first album, ''[[Tweez]]'', was recorded in the fall of 1987 by [[Steve Albini]], whom the band had chosen because they were fans of Albini's recently defunct group [[Big Black]]. Though Slint's members had composed the album's music during rehearsals in Walford's parents' basement, most of the lyrics were created in-studio, and included between-song sound effects and [[ad-lib]]bed conversations with Albini.<ref name="Bangs, 2014" /> During mixdown, Walford requested that Albini "make the bass drum sound like a [[ham]] being slapped by a catcher's [[Baseball mitt|mitt]]," and then spilled a cup of [[tea]] on Albini's [[mixing board]].<ref name="Simpson, 2014">{{cite news|last=Simpson|first=Dave|date=May 1, 2014|title=Spiderland by Slint: the album that reinvented rock|work=[[The Guardian]]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/may/01/spiderland-slint-album-reinvented-rock|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Without formal song titles, eight of the album's tracks were named for the band members' parents, and a ninth for Walford's dog, Rhoda. Once completed, Buckler was dissatisfied with the recordings and left Slint to form the group [[King Kong (American band)|King Kong]], initially made up of all of Slint's members taking up different instruments. All of Slint's original members recorded the single "Movie Star" as King Kong in Steve Albini's studio while he was away on a trip in 1989.<ref>{{cite web|title=King Kong - "Me Hungry"|url=https://www.dragcity.com/products/me-hungry|website=www.dragcity.com|publisher=Drag City|access-date=January 7, 2017}}</ref>

=== 1988–1990: Todd Brashear joins, release of ''Tweez'' ===

[[Ethan Buckler|Buckler]] was soon replaced by bass player Todd Brashear. Slint had hoped that Touch and Go Records would release ''Tweez'', but the band did not hear back from the label.<ref name="Bangs, 2014" /> A friend of the group, Jennifer Hartman, paid for the album's release for a tiny run on the imprint Jennifer Hartman Records in 1989.<ref>{{cite book|last=Strong|first=Martin C.|url=https://archive.org/details/greatrockdiscogr0000stro|title=The Great Rock Discography|publisher=Mojo Books|year=2000|isbn=1-84195-017-3|edition=5th|location=Edinburgh|pages=[https://archive.org/details/greatrockdiscogr0000stro/page/893/mode/2up 893–894]|author-link=Martin C. Strong|url-access=registration}}</ref> By then the group had returned to the studio with Albini to record two instrumental tracks. Original copies of ''Tweez'' included a flyer advertising a 12" single of these songs to be released on Jennifer Hartman. But by now, the band had succeeded in catching the ear of [[Touch & Go Records]]'s founder [[Corey Rusk]] who agreed to release the group's next album. The master tapes to the proposed 12" were then shelved, making ''Tweez'' the sole release on the Jennifer Hartman label.<ref name="Bangs, 2014" />

By the time ''Tweez'' was released, most of the group had gone off to college and would return to Louisville during breaks to write and practice new material. Returning to the Walfords' basement, the group would spend hours repeating the same guitar riff and then adding in layers of nuance on top of it.<ref name="Simpson, 2014" /> After rehearsals, McMahan took practice tapes home and worked on vocals with the use of a 4-track tape recorder. Sitting in his parents' car made it possible to record softly spoken vocals over the band's loud music.<ref name="Bangs, 2014" /> After developing these new songs, Slint's members wanted a cleaner sound than that of their first [[LP record|LP]], so they approached Minneapolis producer Brian Paulson who had recorded two albums with McMahan's former bandmates' group [[Bastro]].<ref name="Bangs, 2014" /> On a trip to visit Bastro and Paulson during the recording sessions for their final studio album, ''Sing the Troubled Beast'', McMahan was in a near-fatal car accident. While in the ambulance, a paramedic called in "Code 138" and the immobilized McMahan regained consciousness singing the [[Misfits (band)|Misfits]] song "[[We Are 138]]".<ref name="Bangs, 2014" /> McMahan's brush with death left him feeling depressed, which affected the recording and aftermath of Slint's next album.<ref name="Simpson, 2014" />

=== 1991: ''Spiderland'' and dissolution ===
Paulson and Slint met over a weekend to record ''[[Spiderland]]'' in Chicago. It was recorded live, with vocals overdubbed in no more than two takes and with little to no rehearsal on the part of McMahan.<ref name="Simpson, 2014" /> The group used two different microphones to record vocals: one for softer, spoken voices, and one for louder, sung voices. During mixdown, Paulson and the group tried adding different effects, but all these were rejected, resulting in a very pared-down production sound.<ref name="Bangs, 2014" /> The day after ''Spiderland''{{'}}s recording session ended, McMahan checked himself into a mental hospital where he was diagnosed with depression, and left the band a few months later.<ref name="Simpson, 2014" />

[[Will Oldham]], a longtime friend of the band, took numerous photos of the group as potential album covers. Some were taken in a nearby [[quarry]] and one was chosen with Slint's four members' heads bobbing above the surface of the [[water]].<ref name="D, Minds, 2014">{{cite web|last=Schneider|first=Martin|date=December 18, 2014|title=Slint and Will Oldham discuss that famous 'Spiderland' album cover|url=https://dangerousminds.net/comments/slint_and_will_oldham|access-date=January 7, 2017|website=Dangerous Minds}}</ref> Touch and Go released ''Spiderland'' in 1991.<ref>{{cite web|date=November 17, 2003|title=Top 100 Albums of the 1990s|url=https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/5923-top-100-albums-of-the-1990s/?page=9|access-date=November 20, 2010|website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|page=9}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Parker|first=Chris|date=February 9, 2005|title=Brian Paulson: Studio aethetics|url=http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A23657|journal=[[Indy Week]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180330130145/https://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/brian-paulson/Content?oid=1194172|archive-date=March 30, 2018|access-date=July 17, 2007}}</ref> The album was unlike anything else that the label had released to date. Slint was to have gone on a European tour after its release, but with the band no longer together, there were no tours, interviews, [[photo]] or video shoots to promote the album.<ref name="Bangs, 2014" /> Despite this, the album's repute grew and it continued to sell several thousand copies annually in the years following its release—a considerable feat for an indie record by a defunct group—and a mystique around the record, and the artists who made it, began to grow.<ref name="Bangs, 2014" />

''Spiderland'' is considered a seminal work,<ref>{{cite web|last=Riggs|first=Richard|date=February 17, 2009|title=Slowcore Week: Slint and Codeine - a shared musical language?|url=https://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4136138|access-date=November 20, 2010|website=[[Drowned in Sound]]|archive-date=February 20, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090220233646/http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4136138|url-status=dead}}</ref> characterized by dark, [[Syncopation|syncopated]] rhythms, sparse guitar lines and haunting subject matter. The record's impact was such that many fans and critics have come to consider it a foundational post-rock album.<ref name="D, Minds, 2014" /> ''Spiderland'' included an address seeking a female vocalist; English songwriter [[PJ Harvey]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ferrier |first=Aimee |date=2024-02-05 |title=When PJ Harvey tried to join Slint |url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/pj-harvey-tried-to-join-slint/ |access-date=2024-05-16 |website=[[Far Out (magazine)|Far Out]] |language=en-US}}</ref> and future [[Crisis (metal band)|Crisis]] vocalist Karyn Crisis<ref name="Morethandown">{{Cite web |last=Evans |first=Morgan |date=2004 |title=More Than Down |url=http://www.crisisfan.com/MoreThanDown2.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060720111231/http://www.crisisfan.com/MoreThanDown2.html |archive-date=2006-07-20 |access-date=2024-10-31 |website=crisisfan.com |page=2}}</ref> were among the applicants.

===1992–present: reunions and reissues===
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The band briefly reformed in 1992, and again in 1994. During this time, Touch and Go Records reissued ''[[Tweez]]'' in 1993, and in 1994 an [[untitled Slint EP|untitled 10"]] [[Extended play|EP]] of the two songs from the shelved tapes recorded between their two albums—one a reinterpretation of "Rhoda" from ''Tweez'', and the other a track called "Glenn".

Members of Slint have since appeared in a number of bands.  Pajo has been a member of [[Dead Child]], [[Tortoise (band)|Tortoise]], [[Will Oldham|Palace]], [[The For Carnation]], [[Household Gods (band)|Household Gods]], the short-lived [[Billy Corgan]]-fronted rock band [[Zwan]], and as of 2021, [[Gang of Four (band)|Gang of Four]].  In 2009, he performed with [[Yeah Yeah Yeahs]] as a live back-up musician.  He briefly played in [[Stereolab]], took up bass in [[Interpol (band)|Interpol]], and performs under the moniker [[David Pajo|PAJO]] and occasionally with his band [[Papa M]], also known as Aerial M, or just M.<ref>{{cite news|last=Ratliff|first=Ben|date=September 5, 2010|title=Body Language, Translated and Remixed|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/06/arts/music/06all.html|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>   Guitarist Brian McMahan formed [[The For Carnation]] in 1994 and also played with [[Will Oldham]] in Palace. Britt Walford played drums in Evergreen, and for [[The Breeders]] under the pseudonym Shannon Doughton on the album ''[[Pod (The Breeders album)|Pod]]'', and as Mike Hunt on the ''[[Safari (Breeders EP)|Safari]]'' EP.  [[Ethan Buckler]] has released several albums with his group [[King Kong (American band)|King Kong]] featuring an ever-shifting cast of members who have occasionally included David Pajo.

Nearly fifteen years after originally disbanding, three members of Slint—Brian McMahan, [[David Pajo]], and Britt Walford—reunited to curate the 2005 [[All Tomorrow's Parties (music festival)|All Tomorrow's Parties]] (ATP) music festival in [[Camber Sands]], England. Also in 2005, Slint played a number of shows in the U.S. and in Europe.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.descendo.com/slint/ |title=Slint reunion 2005 |publisher=Descendo.com |access-date=March 29, 2014}}</ref>  Though they insisted the reunion was short-term, the band regrouped once again in 2007 to perform ''Spiderland'' in its entirety in Barcelona as part of the [[Primavera Sound Festival]], in London as part of the ATP ''Don't Look Back'' series of shows, as well as at a handful of dates in Europe, the U.S. (at Chicago's Pitchfork Music Festival, the Showbox in Seattle, and the Henry Fonda Theatre in Hollywood), and Canada.  In addition to performing the album and the EP ''Slint'', they also debuted a new composition called "King's Approach",<ref>{{cite web|title=News {{!}} Touch and Go / Quarterstick Records|url=http://www.touchandgorecords.com/news/detail.php?id=238|access-date=March 29, 2014|publisher=[[Touch and Go Records]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=zlayed|date=May 4, 2011|title=Slint - King's approach|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCM5cvDAU6M|access-date=October 27, 2018|publisher=[[YouTube]]}}</ref> which remains unrecorded.

In a September 2012 interview conducted with Northern Irish music publication [[AU Magazine]], [[David Pajo]] hinted at more activity from the band in the coming months: "We still communicate regularly and we've got some surprises for next year that fans will be excited about. I know I am."<ref>{{cite web|title=David Pajo|url=http://iheartau.com/2012/09/david-pajo/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160323183846/https://iheartau.com/2012/09/david-pajo/|archive-date=March 23, 2016|access-date=September 24, 2012|publisher=iheartau.com|language=japanese}}</ref> The band reunited in December 2013 to play as one of the headliners of the final [[All Tomorrow's Parties (music festival)|All Tomorrow's Parties]] festival in Camber Sands, England.<ref>{{cite web|title=End Of An Era Part 2 curated by ATP & Loop - All Tomorrow's Parties|url=http://www.atpfestival.com/events/endofanerapart2.php|access-date=March 29, 2014|publisher=Atpfestival.com}}</ref>

A deluxe ''Spiderland'' boxset was announced in January 2014.<ref>{{cite web|last=Minsker|first=Evan|date=January 30, 2014|title=Slint's Spiderland Gets Deluxe Box Set Reissue|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/53769-slints-spiderland-gets-deluxe-box-set-reissue/|access-date=March 29, 2014|website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]}}</ref> In 2014 Touch and Go released several live, demo, and practice sessions of songs recorded by the band between 1989 and 1990.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Slint-Spiderland/release/5584658|title=Slint - Spiderland|publisher=Discogs|access-date=July 21, 2017}}</ref> These appeared as the LP ''Bonus Tracks'', as well as in box set editions of ''Spiderland'' alongside the DVD ''[[Breadcrumb Trail (film)|Breadcrumb Trail]]'', filmmaker [[Lance Bangs]]' 90-minute documentary about the band shot over the course of 12 years.<ref>{{cite web|last=Nixon|first=Dan|date=March 24, 2014|title=Some Fucking Stars: Slint Documentary Breadcrumb Trail Reviewed|url=https://thequietus.com/articles/14798-slint-breadcrumb-trail-review|access-date=January 7, 2017|website=[[The Quietus]]}}</ref> In 2014, the band also performed at the [[Primavera Sound]] music festival in Spain and Portugal and [[Green Man Festival]] in Wales. The group has no plans to record new material and have since disbanded after their most recent reunions in 2013 and 2014.

== Style and influence==
The band is noted for having syncopated guitar riffs, drastically altering dynamics, and complex song structures and time signatures.<ref name="Simpson, 2014" /> McMahan's and Walford's vocals comprised hushed spoken words, singing, and strained screaming.<ref>{{cite web|last=Berman|first=Stuart|date=April 16, 2014|title=Slint: Spiderland|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19182-slint-spiderland-remastered-box-set/|access-date=May 29, 2020|website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]}}</ref> Artists that influenced Slint include [[Leonard Cohen]], [[Neil Young]], [[Nick Cave]], [[Madonna]], [[Philip Glass]], [[Minutemen (band)|Minutemen]] and [[Big Black]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=2005-04-04 |title=Slow Fade |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/04/11/slow-fade |access-date=2022-08-15 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Calvert |first1=John |title=Murder Ballads: an interview with Slint |url=https://www.factmag.com/2014/03/12/murder-ballads-an-interview-with-slint/ |website=Fact Magazine |date=March 12, 2014 |access-date=31 January 2023}}</ref>

Rachel Devine of ''[[The List (magazine)|The List]]'' called ''Spiderland'' "arguably the most disproportionately influential [album] in music history".{{sfn|Devine|2007}} It is regarded as a highly influential forerunner of the [[math-rock]] genre,{{sfn|Diver|2008}} with ''Pitchfork''{{'}}s Stuart Berman noting how the album "motivated a cluster of semi-popular bands in the late-90s and early 2000s to adopt its whisper-to-scream schematic. It's the boundless inspiration it perpetually provides for all the bands that have yet to emerge from the basement."{{snf|Berman|2014}}

Additionally, they have come to be regarded as one of the pioneers of [[post-rock]], ''Spiderland'' being described as "the ur-text for what became known as post-rock, a fractured, almost geometric reimagining of rock music stripped of its dionysiac impulse."{{sfn|Peschek|2005}} [[Mogwai]]'s [[Stuart Braithwaite]] was struck by the "psychic playing" evident on ''Spiderland'', stating "when I heard it, it was unlike anything I’d heard before. I still don’t know if I have heard anything else like it, now. Obviously a lot of bands take a lot from it – I know that we did."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Braithwaite |first=Stuart |last2=Diver |first2=Mike |date=2014 |title=Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite On Slint's 'Spiderland' |url=https://www.clashmusic.com/features/mogwais-stuart-braithwaite-on-slints-spiderland/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221002130929/https://www.clashmusic.com/features/mogwais-stuart-braithwaite-on-slints-spiderland/ |archive-date=October 2, 2022 |access-date=April 25, 2024 |website=clashmusic.com}}</ref>

==Members==

=== Core members ===
*[[David Pajo]] – guitar (1986–1991, 1992, 1994, reunions)
*[[Britt Walford]] – drums, guitar, vocals (1986–1991, 1992, 1994, reunions)
*[[Ethan Buckler]] – bass (1986–1987)
*[[Brian McMahan]] – vocals, guitar (1986–1991, 1992, 1994, reunions)
*Todd Brashear – bass (1988–1991, 1992)

=== Former touring members ===
*Michael McMahan – guitar (2005, 2007, 2013–2014)
*Todd Cook – bass (2005, 2007)
*Matt Jencik – bass (2007, 2013–2014)

=== Session musicians ===
* Tim Ruth – bass (1994)<ref name="ReferenceA" />

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==Discography==
===Studio albums===
* ''[[Tweez]]'' (1989)
* ''[[Spiderland]]'' (1991)

===Extended plays===
* [[Untitled Slint EP|Untitled]] (1994)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{commons category}}
* {{allMusic}}
* [http://www.touchandgorecords.com/bands/band.php?id=70 Slint Touch and Go records band page]

{{Slint}}

{{Authority control}}

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[[Category:American post-rock groups]]
[[Category:Indie rock musical groups from Kentucky]]
[[Category:American math rock groups]]
[[Category:Musical groups from Louisville, Kentucky]]
[[Category:Musical groups established in 1986]]
[[Category:Musical groups reestablished in 2007]]
[[Category:Touch and Go Records artists]]
[[Category:1986 establishments in Kentucky]]
[[Category:Musical groups reestablished in 2013]]
[[Category:Musical groups reestablished in 2005]]