KING KONG - "Me Hungry" LP

King Kong - Me Hungry LP (Drag City, 1995) Beggar's Banquet, Appetite for Destruction, Me Hungry. "Slint released its final album, Spiderland, in 1991—yet somehow, by the middle of the decade, the quartet seemed synonymous with Louisville indie rock. Its bleak guitars, irregular meters, and abrupt mood swings had become pervasive. A trail of grim-faced musicians came in the band’s wake. Palace Brothers and the For Carnation had ties to Slint; more plentiful were its clones, each approaching its craft with a gravity typically reserved for other pursuits, such as lowering the body of a nemesis into an unmarked grave.  Yet for a miniscule (enlightened?) cult, the greatest band to emerge from Slint’s orbit has always been King Kong. Its focal point and sole mainstay is Ethan Buckler, who quit as Slint’s bassist after the band’s first album, then recruited its other members to back him on King Kong’s debut 7-inch, 1989’s Movie Star. From its first rumblings, King Kong proved Slint’s tonal o