My Collection 2: Acetone - I'm Still Waiting
I'm listening to as much as I can but to keep up with daily will be hard because my next entry is the eleven-disc career-spanning box set by these sad boys, I'm Still Waiting. I had to place each disc in its own sleeve but this box is so lovingly crafted and each of those discs sound great. Clear is my favorite type of color to get when it comes to vinyl records, and all these discs are so quiet from the pretenses of grunge and heavy rock alongside at times gothic and always self-deprecating lyrics of Cindy and the first EP to the last lethargic beat of the drum on York Blvd.
If it weren't for the perfect self-titled album I'd say my favorite album in this lineup is the I Guess I Would EP, a requiem for the scrapped album that Vernon Yard foolishly shipped the burnt out band to Nashville for. There in the forests of Appalachia and at each others throats, the band tirelessly recorded 7 county covers as catharsis, ending with the seething, dense rendition of Kris Kristofferson's Border Lord which is just as much a part of musical canon as Everybody Knows This is Nowhere as far as I'm concerned.
Acetone was a strikingly consistent band and their penchant for surf and debt to Americana music makes them stand out among a relatively overcrowded microgenre of Slowcore. MY only gripe is that the Prime Cuts disc doesn't feel particularly essential, I'd have packaged it with the previous log in this list, the comp, or the next item in this list, the definitive live album. With a huge retrospective book inside I'm surprised this thing is still available.