Big Star: Complete Third box set review – definitive version of cult masterpiece

(Omnivore Recordings)Related: Mike Mills: why I love Big Star Big Star’s cult masterpiece is the sound of disintegration, of things falling apart – and of Alex Chilton’s drug-fuelled lurch away from the powerpop of Big Star’s first two albums. Recorded in 1974 but unreleased until 1978, Third/Sister Lovers has since been reissued sporadically under a variety of titles and with different track listings – so there has never been a definitive version until now. Omnivor