"Good Morning Captain"

Slint
(Touch and Go, 1991)

Probably the only Midwestern indie/math/art-rock song you absolutely, positively need to hear. Intricate, arachnoid guitars grope for a foothold in the darkness, voices whisper just out of reach, desperate, home-seeking, lost, building to a bone-chilling Blair Witch-type climax, only way spookier. This is also the song responsible for starting the underground craze for nautical themes that was picked up by June of 44, Shipping News, Victory at Sea, et al.

-- Carly Carioli