Mittwoch, 22. April 2015

the acacia strain - 3750

this is the last record in my little 'long-time-want' series. the final piece is the acacia strain's second album called '3750'. acacia strain always had changing band members and even the number of members wasn't consistent over the years. back in 2004 they had been six in number. the only constant is singer vincent benett and his voice really is the poster child of the group. '3750' is more 'metalcore' in comparison to recent works but considering the time frame and the fact that adam dutkiewicz of killswitch engage fame was the producer, this make sense.
listen to 'smoke ya later' and 'sun poison and skin cancer' and move like everybody did ten years ago, whatever that means. next to 'wormwood', which i still don't have in my collection, a coloured vinyl copy of '3750' always seemd to be the most elusive one. the cd version was released through prosthetic records, they in turn liscensed the rights to spare change records. spare change was active from the mid to late 00's and they pressed only 199 coloured copies of this album.
i made some half-assed attempts to get my hands on a copy throughout the years, but with some money of an ebay deal in my paypal account i finally stepped up and got serious. i found a seller on discogs who listed the album for a considerable chunk of cash but with an 'make an offer' option. i was able to lower the price a bit and am now the proud owner of #119/199 on this nice clear vinyl. sadly there is no insert coming with this release but i have the cd as well. spare change records. 2004.