Editing Slint (section)

== Style and influence==
The band is noted for having syncopated guitar riffs, drastically altering dynamics, and complex song structures and time signatures.<ref name="Simpson, 2014" /> McMahan's and Walford's vocals comprised hushed spoken words, singing, and strained screaming.<ref>{{cite web|last=Berman|first=Stuart|date=April 16, 2014|title=Slint: Spiderland|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19182-slint-spiderland-remastered-box-set/|access-date=May 29, 2020|website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]}}</ref> Artists that influenced Slint include [[Leonard Cohen]], [[Neil Young]], [[Nick Cave]], [[Madonna]], [[Philip Glass]], [[Minutemen (band)|Minutemen]] and [[Big Black]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=2005-04-04 |title=Slow Fade |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/04/11/slow-fade |access-date=2022-08-15 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Calvert |first1=John |title=Murder Ballads: an interview with Slint |url=https://www.factmag.com/2014/03/12/murder-ballads-an-interview-with-slint/ |website=Fact Magazine |date=March 12, 2014 |access-date=31 January 2023}}</ref>

Rachel Devine of ''[[The List (magazine)|The List]]'' called ''Spiderland'' "arguably the most disproportionately influential [album] in music history".{{sfn|Devine|2007}} It is regarded as a highly influential forerunner of the [[math-rock]] genre,{{sfn|Diver|2008}} with ''Pitchfork''{{'}}s Stuart Berman noting how the album "motivated a cluster of semi-popular bands in the late-90s and early 2000s to adopt its whisper-to-scream schematic. It's the boundless inspiration it perpetually provides for all the bands that have yet to emerge from the basement."{{snf|Berman|2014}} 

Additionally, they have come to be regarded as one of the pioneers of [[post-rock]], ''Spiderland'' being described as "the ur-text for what became known as post-rock, a fractured, almost geometric reimagining of rock music stripped of its dionysiac impulse."{{sfn|Peschek|2005}} [[Mogwai]]'s [[Stuart Braithwaite]] was struck by the "psychic playing" evident on ''Spiderland'', stating "when I heard it, it was unlike anything I’d heard before. I still don’t know if I have heard anything else like it, now. Obviously a lot of bands take a lot from it – I know that we did."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Braithwaite |first=Stuart |last2=Diver |first2=Mike |date=2014 |title=Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite On Slint's 'Spiderland' |url=https://www.clashmusic.com/features/mogwais-stuart-braithwaite-on-slints-spiderland/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221002130929/https://www.clashmusic.com/features/mogwais-stuart-braithwaite-on-slints-spiderland/ |archive-date=October 2, 2022 |access-date=April 25, 2024 |website=clashmusic.com}}</ref>