Felix NEill

It's been heavily electronic around here lately hasn't it.

To redress the balance back towards the guitars, have a go on this timeless, genre defining classic. I hadn't played this for a long time and was suddenly overcome by a huge desire to hear it again one day last week. Unfortunately, it's taken me this long to find it among my CDs, but there can be no doubt that it was worth the wait.

There's a Wikipedia page which has all the information you could possibly need about the background, context and influence of this album.

Spiderland has become a landmark indie rock album and is considered, along with Talk Talk's Spirit Of Eden and Laughing Stock, to have been the primary catalyst of the post-rock and math rock genres. David Peschek said that the album is "the ur-text for what became known as post-rock, a fractured, almost geometric reimagining of rock music stripped of its dionysiac impulse." Rachel Devine of The List called Spiderland "arguably the most disproportionately influential [album] in music history".