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Acetone

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This album grooves along slowly with a whisper but it wont put you to sleep. Every Kiss, Might as Well, and Chew rock out but at a quiet rumble.

Richie Lee and Mark Lightcap's vocal harmonies are remind me of the Beach Boys or Crosby Stills Nash, but on acid. Quiet scrapes of the fingers on the strings and a slight country twang bring a relaxing vibe to the music.

The lyrics are great and relate to lost love and loneliness but far from making you feel depressed leaves your soul soothed and warm. Perfect music for getting high, going to sleep, waking up in the morning, having sex, driving at dusk, or crowded subways.

you wont ever hear about this band and they will probably never tour again but if you have a normal attention span and enjoy good music you should buy this album

One of the best mornings I can remember was waking up in a sleeping bag on a seat in an old schoolbus in the middle of the Oregon high desert with the sun shining in through the windows and this album still playing in my headphones from the night before.

Acetone is one of the most underrated bands. I wonder what would have been if there wasn't a suicide. I have all of their Cd's, and I have never been disappointed.

I've been listening to Acetone for years now. I was introduced to them at a double bill they did with (the) Verve at Bogarts in Cinci. While I was there primarily to see Verve play, I went out shortly afterwards and bought "Cindy", the LP Acetone was touring to promote. Although "Cindy" was heavily influenced by Lou Reed material, and it seemed that several riffs were lifted outright from Reed's Guitar, the album was an excellent debut. It reached its precious moments when they left behind the feedback rock and focused on introspective and very beautiful songs entirely of their own invention. Their second album, the name of which escapes me at the moment, was more focused on this slow, soft sound. But something was lacking. It seemed too depressed and too slow to be rewarding. It was a nice listen if you were sad, but it didn't approach the promise of "Cindy" This Album, the self titled "Acetone", is a definite step in the right direction. It is nothing less than beautifully crafted songwriting delivered with total honesty and integrity. An immensely rewarding album to listen to repeatedly. The hooks are their own, the words are their own and the joy and sadness are their own. Unique and very pleasing.

I don't know who Peter Kane is ... nor do I know what Emap Consumer Magazines Ltd. is ... but I do know that his review (above) is shallow and flip. Listen to the album: this band knows how to set up a groove and ride it just right. Sure it's mellow, but in the best tradition of offbeat Euro-cool sounds (Style Council, Verve). Give it a listen and you'll see. It's their own sound and it's got some heft to it.

I stumbled across Acetone's self-titled album in a stack of promos a friend had from her days in college radio. I immediately fell in love with the album's dreamy, languid melodies, set to simple and wistful guitar (remiscent of Pink Floyd's less epic moments), overlaid with gentle, blue and sometimes quite lonely lyrics. The lead singer's voice (and his harmonic backups) remind me of Chet Baker's for its soft, untrained, elegant sweetness. Acetone brought me back to an appreciation of pop rock.

This EP is the very first release by the band and it does sound stuck in the mid 90's grunge era slighty.
The 4 songs are all quite different in style, tempo, and feel, which makes it a nice little collection.

I'M GONE is the most straight ahead grunge alt rock track. The band stretches it out nicely though, through slight tempo changes and some cool lyrics like "Just like an adventure through jungle and scrub, I fell out of the tree but I'm not in love."

D.F.B. is a more high octane punk track which includes some rather humourous and cynical lyrics about people losing hope in life.

FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE takes the title and atmosphere of the Clint Eastwood western score by Morricone and is itself a mellow smooth instrumental.

The epic title track CINDY, my personal favorite, starts out with heavy reverbed, fuzzed out feed back wail and then slows down to softly brushed drums and jazz surf like guitar chords. This cycle reapeats itself throughout the song slowly building and rising up and down. The lyrics and vocals harmonies are very dream like, and beautiful.