Acetone

The group's influences included the Beach Boys, Gram Parsons and the Velvet Underground. Establishing themselves as an alternative rock group, they incorporated genres ranging from neo-psychedelia to roots rock and country into their music. Acetone has performed on few occasions since Lee's death, most notably with Mazzy Star's lead singer Hope Sandoval in 2017.
In 2023, New West Records released a comprehensive 11 LP box set that contains the band's entire discography, making some of the out-of-print recordings available again for the first time in years. In the accompanying book, Drew Daniel of Matmos retraces Acetone's trajectory and British musician J Spaceman (Spaceman 3, Spiritualized) describes his relation to the musicians, further emphasizing Acetone's status as a band highly esteemed by their peers. The re-release rekindled the interest in Acetone, both in their own right as "clearly underappreciated talent (...) enshrined in the history of alternative music" as well as a case example for "one of many swept up in the post-Nirvana gold rush and signed for a huge advance, only for them to later fade into a distant memory, a spectre of unfulfilled potential."