Slint

Slint
Slint at Pitchfork Music Festival on July 13, 2007
Background information
Origin	Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Genres	Post-rock math rock post-hardcore
Years active	1986–1990, 1992, 1994, 2005, 2007, 2013–2014
Labels	Touch and Go
Associated acts	Tortoise Papa M Zwan Solution Unknown Squirrel Bait The For Carnation Maurice Bush League Dead Child Palace Brothers Bastro Evergreen The Breeders King Kong Crain The Glasspack Shipping News Parlour (band) Watter
Members	Brian McMahan David Pajo Britt Walford Ethan Buckler Todd Brashear

Slint is an American rock band consisting of Brian McMahan (guitar and vocals), David Pajo (guitar), Britt Walford (drums and vocals), Todd Brashear (bass on Spiderland), and Ethan Buckler (bass on Tweez). They formed in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, in 1986. Slint's first album Tweez was recorded by legendary engineer Steve Albini in 1987 and released in obscurity on the Jennifer Hartman Records label in 1989. It was followed two years later by the critically acclaimed Spiderland, released on the independent label Touch and Go Records. Though they have never recorded since 1991, they are considered by critics and musicians alike to be a major influence on the post-hardcore, math rock, and post-rock scenes, Spiderland alone being cited as one of the landmark records of the 1990s and as among the greatest albums of all time.

They have reunited sporadically since 2005.

Walford and McMahan met in their pre-teens and attended the Brown School, a Louisville public school founded on a pedagogy of self-directed learning. They began performing music together at an early age, forming the Languid and Flaccid with Ned Oldham (later of The Anomoanoan) while still in middle school. 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.

Also prior to Slint, 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, 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.