If you love Slint’s Spiderland and are looking for more music along similar lines, here are some albums worth checking out. There’s a mix of familiar names and lesser-known bands here, with albums that blend elements of indie rock, post-hardcore, post-rock, math rock, and noise rock.

We’ve also put together a Spotify playlist, RIYL: Slint, Spiderland, where you can find tracks from many of these albums and plenty more.

Now, on to the list.


(in no particular order)

SHIPPING NEWS – FLIES THE FIELDS (2005)

Also worth checking out: Very Soon, and In Pleasant Company (2001)

JUNE OF 44 – FOUR GREAT POINTS (1998)

Also worth checking out: Tropics and Meridians (1996) + Engine Takes to Water (1995)

RODAN – RUSTY (1994)

Roadside Monument – Eight Hours Away from Being a Man (1997)

Also worth checking out: I Am the Day of Current Taste (1998)

CERBERUS SHOAL – RUSTY (1994)

90 Day Men – (It (Is) It) Critical Band (2000)

A Minor Forest – Flemish Altruism (1996)

Also worth checking out: Inindependence (1998)

The Telephone Man – The Telephone Man 1992–1994 (2012)

Bitch Magnet – Ben Hur (1990)

sewingneedle – user error (2018)

lowercase – The Going Away Present (1999)

Also worth checking out: Kill the Lights (1997)

Unwound – New Plastic Ideas (1994)

Also worth checking out: Leaves Turn Inside You (2001)

Sprain – As Lost Through Collision (2020)

Bondo – 77 (2021, EP)

Also worth checking out: Harmonica (2024)

The For Carnation – The For Carnation (2000)

Abilene – Two Guns, Twin Arrows (2002)

Also worth checking out: Abilene (2000)

Ativin – Interiors (2002)

Also worth checking out: German Water (1999)

Stereobate – Selling Out in the Silent Era (2001)

Hurl – A Place Called Today (1996)

HAAL – Back to Shilmarine (2024, EP)

Lungfish – Artificial Horizon (1998)

Also worth checking out: Sound in Time (1996) + The Unanimous Hour (1999)


For more music along these lines, check out our RIYL: Slint, Spiderland playlist below. It’s regularly updated with new tracks, so give it a listen and follow for more.


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