rare SLINT tweez 1st PRESS LP poster TORTOISE papa m

$

200

Not one you see around...ever! In fact, I've never seen another other than this one I bought the week of release!

This is the original 1989 issue Jennifer Hartman Records label release of the post punk pioneering album by Slint Tweez that would launch a thousand imitators in it's wake!

I could not locate the pressing size anywhere on the internet, but I believe it may have been 1000 or maybe even 500.  I do know that it sold out quickly (mainly in the Chicago & Louisville Kentucky areas) upon release, and was quickly purchased for re-press by Touch & Go, when they themselves were still growing from a small label to the larger Independent they are today.

Members would go on to be in (or be, or had been in) highly regarded outfits like Papa M (aka Aerial M), King Kong, The Breeders, Squirrel Bait, The For Carnation, Tortoise & Zwan (with Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins fame) as well as collaborating on recordings & live with Will Oldham of Palace & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy note!

Here's what the All Music Guide says about Slint:

"Though largely overlooked during their relatively brief lifespan, Slint grew to become one of the most influential and far-reaching bands to emerge from the American underground rock community of the 1980s; innovative and iconoclastic, the group's deft, extremist manipulations of volume, tempo, and structure cast them as clear progenitors of the post-rock movement which blossomed during the following decade.

Whatever the extent of Slint's own influence, the group grew out of Louisville, Kentucky's legendary Squirrel Bait, another seminal band which languished in relative obscurity during its own lifetime but ultimately spawned the likes of Gastr del Sol, Big Wheel, and Bastro. Guitarist/vocalist Brian McMahan formed his first group at the age of 12; within a few years, he teamed with drummer Britt Walford, and after the addition of vocalist Peter Searcy, guitarist David Grubbs, and bassist Clark Johnson, they founded Squirrel Bait in the mid-'80s. After two ferocious records, a self-titled 1985 effort and 1987's Skag Heaven, the group disbanded, leaving McMahan and Walford to continue on as Slint with guitarist David Pajo and bassist Ethan Buckler.

With producer Steve Albini, the quartet recorded 1989's Tweez, issued on their own Jennifer Hartman label; a collection of odd stylistic approaches, fractured rhythms, and strange lyrical fragments, the album owed debts to few (if any) historical precedents and steadfastly defied easy classification. Shortly after the record's completion, Buckler left to form King Kong, and was replaced by bassist Todd Brashear for 1991's Spiderland, an even more sophisticated and adventurous set.

With the exception of a posthumous 1994 EP (originally recorded between the two full-length albums), Spiderland was Slint's swan song, although the individual members remained key figures in the independent scene. After attending art college, Pajo joined the ranks of Tortoise, while Walford (under the alias Shannon Doughton) played drums with the Breeders before rejoining Buckler in King Kong. McMahan and Brashear, meanwhile, aided Will Oldham in his ever-shifting Palace aggregate (which additionally housed Pajo and Walford at one point or another); McMahan and Pajo also briefly reunited as members of the For Carnation."--Jason Ankeny (AMG)

I am the one & only owner this record has ever had & can guarantee the condition to be Mint/Mint- with a minimal amount of play. The poster insert is included still, and has never been hung. It's in it's original folded condition (so that they could fit in the jacket).

This is a piece of Indie Rock History that your not likely to see again in this condition (if at all)!!

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