Bitch Magnet: Star Booty/Umber/Ben Hur – review

(3CD, Temporary Residence)Like Slint's Spiderland, Bitch Magnet's 1990 album Ben Hur was a game-changer in US indie rock, a precisely orchestrated, restless dance of metal squalls, impassioned melody and jazz-tinged drumming whose influence reaches to the present (hello Battles, White Denim, et al). Unlike Spiderland, Ben Hur remains clouded in obscurity. This reissue collection is as taut and focused as the band who made it, working its way backwards from Ben Hur to 1989's Umber and the 1988 E...

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