Boilermaker Announce New Box Set Not Enough Time to Get Anything Halfway Done

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 “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.