 The recording sessions for Spiderland are reputed to have been difficult for the members of the band and were , according to AllMusic , " intense , traumatic and one more piece of evidence supporting the theory that band members had to be periodically institutionalized during the completion of the album . " Rumors circulated that at least one member of Slint had been checked into a psychiatric hospital . Walford later addressed these stories in an article in Select by saying , " [ We were ] definitely trying to be serious about things , pretty intense , which made recording the album kinda stressful . " The recording was completed in four days . 
