Shout out to yo' hipsters:
Slint - Spiderland (1991)
Okay, so it might have been one of the earliest post-hardcore albums, but there are so many betters, like Polvo's
Today's Active Lifestyles (1993). Not only is it excessively dry, but it never really reaches an apex, it just slides downhill from noisy ambiguity to noisy ambiguity.