Bitch Magnet
Formed at Oberlin College in 1986, wandered from Ohio to Chapel Hill to NYC, broke up in 1990 after three records that shouldn't have been possible in 1989. Sooyoung Park's singing bass, Jon Fine's angular guitar, and Orestes Morfín's drum patterns from another dimension previewed math rock, post-hardcore, and slowcore all at the same time. Ben Hur is the record — go listen. Jon Fine's memoir Your Band Sucks is the book. Park went on to Seam, Fine wrote, Morfín kept drumming. The influence vastly outstrips the discography size, which is sort of the point.
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Bitch Magnet's singing bassist, then Seam's singing guitarist — one of the key songwriters of the whole late-80s / early-90s post-hardcore lineage. Went from the abrasive noise rock of Umber and Ben Hur to the slow-burning emotional gut punches of The Problem with Me. His tone on the quieter records is the sound of a heart breaking in slow motion.
Bitch Magnet's guitarist. Also wrote Your Band Sucks — a memoir about the pre-internet indie rock touring life that is the definitive account of what it was actually like to be in a band like Bitch Magnet in 1989. Essential reading.
Bitch Magnet's drummer and one of the truly singular drummers of the era. Played rhythmic patterns nobody else was attempting in 1989 — polyrhythms, negative space, shifts that previewed math rock's whole vocabulary years before math rock existed as a term.