Slint - Tweez (35th Anniversary Edition) 2xLP
$49.98
Label: Touch And Go
Release Date: October 25th, 2024
Opaque white vinyl. Limited to 3,138 numbered copies. Gatefold jacket with liner notes by Steve Albini and Ethan Buckler.
Slint was a band from Louisville, Kentucky. Tweez is their first recording.
It's almost always muddy in the lousy little shanty town by the river. All the children's toys are old and rusty, even the plastic ones. Jimmy and Mel fashioned their own toy out of a live chicken that they stole. A knot was tied around the bird's feet with a shoe lace. The two boys painted their plaything yellow and silver and swung it around like a lasso, screaming gibberish and laughing the whole time. Mel got so excited that he wet himself. So, Jimmy slugged him square in the eye. About five or eight miles south east of the shanty town all the fellows in Slint were suffering from headaches, except the drummer, who only got them when the others didn't.
"Slint formed in 1986 as an outlet and pastime for four friends from Louisville, Kentucky. Their music was strange, wholly their own, sparse and tight. What immediately set them apart was their economy and precision. Slint were that rare band willing to play just one or two notes at a time and sometimes nothing at all... 1989's Tweez LP hints at their genius." - Steve Albini (Melody Maker, 1991)
Per Ethan Buckler (Slint bassist on Tweez), "Finally - after thirty-five long years - the other guys in Slint decided to be nice to me and let me have my Tweez remix. I complained incessantly back in the day about how the Albini production style ruined our first recording." In 2023, Ethan took the original multi-track recordings to a local studio in Louisville. Upon handing the engineer a copy of a pre- Tweez Slint practice tape, he said "Make it sound like this." LP2 of this Tweez (35th Anniversary Edition) is the result.
Mastered by Bob Weston from the original analog master tapes.
