Editing Slint (section)

=== 1986–1989: Founding, Recording of ''Tweez'', and Ethan Buckler's departure ===
Slint formed in the summer of 1986.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/439361-Tweez/images|title=Images for Slint - Tweez|publisher=Discogs|access-date=April 16, 2018}}</ref> Walford and Pajo were joined by the slightly older Buckler (age 18 at the time) for a show for a [[Unitarian Universalist]] congregation on November 2; performing under the name Small Tight Dirty Tufts of Hair, most of the congregation left during the band's first two songs.<ref>{{cite web|title=Invisible Histories: Slint (Part 2)|url=http://mog.com/jsguntzel/blog/21046|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120922125200/https://mog.com/jsguntzel/blog/21046|archive-date=September 22, 2012|access-date=November 20, 2010|publisher=[[MOG (online music)|MOG]]}}</ref> They were soon joined by McMahan and named themselves Slint after one of Walford's pet fish.<ref name="Bangs, 2014" />

Slint's first album, ''[[Tweez]]'', was recorded in the fall of 1987 by [[Steve Albini]], whom the band had chosen because they were fans of Albini's recently defunct group [[Big Black]]. Though Slint's members had composed the album's music during rehearsals in Walford's parents' basement, most of the lyrics were created in-studio, and included between-song sound effects and [[ad-lib]]bed conversations with Albini.<ref name="Bangs, 2014" /> During mixdown, Walford requested that Albini "make the bass drum sound like a [[ham]] being slapped by a catcher's [[Baseball mitt|mitt]]," and then spilled a cup of [[tea]] on Albini's [[mixing board]].<ref name="Simpson, 2014">{{cite news|last=Simpson|first=Dave|date=May 1, 2014|title=Spiderland by Slint: the album that reinvented rock|work=[[The Guardian]]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/may/01/spiderland-slint-album-reinvented-rock|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Without formal song titles, eight of the album's tracks were named for the band members' parents, and a ninth for Walford's dog, Rhoda. Once completed, Buckler was dissatisfied with the recordings and left Slint to form the group [[King Kong (American band)|King Kong]], initially made up of all of Slint's members taking up different instruments. All of Slint's original members recorded the single "Movie Star" as King Kong in Steve Albini's studio while he was away on a trip in 1989.<ref>{{cite web|title=King Kong - "Me Hungry"|url=https://www.dragcity.com/products/me-hungry|website=www.dragcity.com|publisher=Drag City|access-date=January 7, 2017}}</ref>