A new box set, from Numero Group, will collect the complete discography of Boilermaker. The 4xLP set, Not Enough Time to Get Anything Halfway Done, combines the San Diego emo and post-hardcore band’s three albums with singles and rarities, as well as an illustrated book featuring interviews with the trio’s two surviving members, plus members of Drive Like Jehu, Pinback, Braid, Boys Life, and more. (Pitchfork’s Nina Corcoran wrote the liner notes.) Take a listen to “Sleeping Arms” and “Slow Down” ahead of the collection’s January 24 release.
Not Enough Time to Get Anything Halfway Done includes Boilermaker’s 1994 debut, Watercourse; 1996’s In Wallace’s Shadow; and their final album, a 1998 self-titled record—all three of which have long been out of print and difficult to find. While most singles were compiled into a bonus LP for the box set, there’s also a 7″ featuring “Whitewash” and “Cruel Heart,” two bonus songs by Boilermaker that were tacked onto their 2001 compilation Leucadia.
Boilermaker rose to prominence in mid-1990s California, fronted by the singer and bassist Terrin Durfey, with drummer Tim Semple and guitarist Richard Sanderson. During their run, they developed a cult following and influenced other bands in the scene, like Jimmy Eat World and Boys Life, but never found breakout success on the same level as those peers. The trio ultimately split in 2002, splintering into bands such as Earthless and the Jade Shader, before Durfey’s death, from skin cancer, in 2008.
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Not Enough Time to Get Anything Halfway Done:
01 Roller Rink Skate Date
02 Hill
03 Switch
04 Lady Finger (Instrumental)
05 Lot 235
06 Crispin Glover Weekend
07 Slingshot
08 Alone
09 Trunk
10 Dark Island (Cover) (Instrumental)
11 Iris
12 Backseat Boat
13 Slow Down
14 Jingle Bell
15 Last Good Growth
16 Shephard
17 Five Lined Skink
18 Phil the Water Sweep (Instrumental)
19 Pathos Delay
20 Breach
21 Norman
22 Midnight Manager
23 Last Stop on the Way to Vegas
24 Last on the Drive
25 01-10-98
26 Sunset Ridge
27 From Phoenix to Four
28 Tumbleweed
29 Here Comes Rolling
30 Thinner Runs Through Her
31 Bluebird
32 Used To Be
33 Beseme Mucho You Fucker (Instrumental)
34 Drained Nonsense
35 Mobile Home
36 Why Is Grandma on the Roof?
37 Slow Down
38 Sleeping Arms
39 Switch
40 Slingshot
41 Trunk (Live)