 Despite having plans for a tour of Europe to promote Spiderland , Slint broke up in 1991 for reasons that were not revealed . Members of the band went on to join other musical projects , including Tortoise , The Breeders , Palace and The For Carnation . Slint reunited briefly in 2005 for an eighteen @-@ date tour . Pajo said , " We don 't want to be a reunion band that keeps reuniting . [ ... ] I know that this is going to be it . " However , in 2007 Slint reunited again for a tour featuring performances of Spiderland in its entirety as part of All Tomorrow 's Parties ' " Don 't Look Back " concert series celebrating classic albums . The tour included appearances at the 2007 Pitchfork Music Festival and Primavera Sound Festival . McMahan said in an interview at the Pitchfork Music Festival that performing the album live was " pretty cool . It moves a little slower than it does on the record , but it 's all there . [ ... ] It took some getting used to , some revisiting the material and rehearsing . " In an August 2013 interview with Vish Khanna , former producer Steve Albini revealed that the band was working on remastering Spiderland with engineer Bob Weston . 
