The Ohio trio Bitch Magnet, named with knowing naughtiness back in a lamentably lost PC world, recorded from 1988 to 1990, and in that two year period plied hardcore punk with a whole new palette of post-rock possibilities.
Here’s everything you need on three discs, in advance of two belated British dates next week.
Escape velocity belters lie down alongside snail paced crawls of monumental hugeness; complex prog rock time changes play out like cro-magnon Stooges riffs; extended epics refuse, insolently, to resolve; and two decades later, Ducks and Drakes’ spiky stegosaurus shell still hides a deceptively soft centre.
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Visualiser1, Twitter
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Anon, westhamonline.com
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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Bobby Bhoy, Twitter
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Alex Quarmby, Edfringe.com
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Shane, Beverley, Dailymail.co.uk
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Jamespearse, Twitter
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Lucinda Locketts, Twitter
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Fowkes81, Twitter
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Lancethrustworthy, Youtube
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Anonymous, The Northfield Patriot
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Joycey, readytogo.net
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Dave Wilson, Chortle.com
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Ishamayura Byrd, Twitter
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