“We were talking about how influential Slint were, and he named a couple of bands that he considered to be influenced by Slint. He called Engine Kid the ‘Melvins of Slint’, he called Crane the ‘Minor Threat of Slint’ and Rodan the ‘Rites of Spring of Slint’. And there were varying degrees of how derivative some of these bands were, you know? Rodan were another band we were a fan of, and they were taking that whole aesthetic that Slint had started and really doing something really special with
