Description
LABEL: Touch and Go Records
VINYL RELEASE DATE: 6/24/2014
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: 1991
VARIANT: 180 Gram Black Vinyl LP (remastered version)
- Slint's 1991 album, Spiderland, remastered from the original analog master tapes by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Service. This is the same version as was included in the Spiderland (remastered) Box Set.
- A download coupon for 14 bonus outtakes and demos personally selected by Slint and mastered by Bob Weston, as well as downloads of the entire Spiderland (remastered) album itself . These are digital files of the same versions of these songs as were included on vinyl & CD in the Spiderland (remastered) Box Set. The 14 bonus songs are not included on the vinyl album; they are included in this vinyl package as digital downloads only.
- Packaged in a heavy weight “tip-on” gatefold LP jacket, including a large format, 12 page book of photos including a foreword by Will Oldham and printed in the USA at Stoughton
- Packaging concept and design by Louisville native Jeremy deVine (of Temporary Residence fame)
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 sudden thrilling blasts of unfettered fury. The eerie black and white photo of the four band members’ heads breaking the surface of the water is iconic among album covers.