Developer

Silkworm | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 8, 1997)
• Original Release Date: April 1, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Matador Records
• ASIN: B0000036WZ
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #210,486 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorite albums of all time..., December 28, 1998

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Jack W. Erter "erter99" (Nashville, TN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Developer (Audio CD)

I choose to review this album because it has changed the way I look at rock and roll. It refocused my waning attention on what I, in many ways, still consider a dying art form. The songs are amazing ... sprawling, if you will. Cinematic. The production of Steve Albini makes them even more so as the drums sounds alive, the bass thick as molasses and the guitar blistering. When I talk about this album, I end up waxing melodramatic, but it's the type of album that inspires that in a person. In the end, it's a traditional rock album that defies tradition, souding new and quite singular. One of the few rock and roll albums of the last 5 years that is truly worth one's attention (as are their other albums).

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars well, more like 4.5/5, July 31, 2004

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Davy (Athens, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Developer (Audio CD)

this album's slow, pondering pace suits it well, and sets it apart. no one could argue that developer doesn't stand alone in silkworm's catalog. it does. it's a soft, dark, nocturnal album, featuring loping, crawling, slithering epics, some of which--especially "sheep waits for wolf", which is one of my absolute favorite songs by any band, ever--feature some truly outstanding guitar work. the rhythm section is as dominating as always, only here it's a little looser, a little rougher, and a lot slower. i mean, sure, the obligatory fists-in-the-air rockers are here--"never met a man i didn't like" is outstanding, and one of the band's best songs--but it seems to me they only serve to give the album a little variation, not drive it home. in fact, the heart of the album are tracks 6-9. everything leading up to that staggering climax is introduction, and everything after--that one song--utterly forgettable.

4.0 out of 5 stars Leicester Bangs Review (1997):, December 9, 2011

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Leicester Bangs "words-R-us" (Leicester, England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Developer (Audio CD)

Silkworm - Developer (Matador)
Seattle based Silkworm's fifth album is the eagerly awaited follow up to 1996's "Firewater" and it won't disappoint. Silkworm has a sound that's reminiscent of nearly every important American guitar band of the last 20 years, but which belongs completely to them. Imagine "Crooked Rain" Pavement with Tom Verlaine on lead, or a merge of '77 period Talking Heads with a late period Minutemen twist and you'll probably have no idea what I'm going on about.

Standout tracks are the opener "Give Me Some Skin", the hard but brittle "Never Met A Man I Didn't Like" and the giggly "Goodnight Mr. Maugham". Musically it's top notch from start to finish, grabbing your attention from the get go and never relaxing its grip. A really fine record.