Slint
Jim O’Rourke has said that the members of Slint made the music they did because they had to make it. As absurdly romantic as that idea is, it is enticing to view creative output that radiates such a powerful sense of newness as being somehow daemonic-ly ordained. Whether the guys in the band had a meta-choice in the matter or not, Slint’s music certainly sounded free of many precedents when it was first quietly released in the late 1980’s. The legacy of the band’s work has left a much different story for many of the groups that followed in Slint’s influential wake. If the tale of Creedance Clearwater Revival spawning a million bar bands is true, then its safe to assume that Slint sired its fair share of math-and-post-rockers the... Read More
- Genre:
- Rock, Alternative/Indie, Math Rock
- City Of Origin:
- Louisville, ,Kentucky United States
- Formed Date:
- 1986
