"Animal is Boxes' third album - their second was recorded with Steve Albini, so you can tell there's a track record there - and was recorded in Experimental Audio studio in Dublin. Sonically, they're like a heavier version of current Irish favourite multi-instrumentalist R.S.A.G, or a funkier Young Widows (or, equally, a more AmRep-py Fugazi). It's metallic without being too metallic, which is what I like, and it's got the intense mathy sound of their influences down well, while still sounding sufficiently original to be interesting."

...yo wassup with the l o c
the girls are all jocking
at the other end of the bar
having drinks with some no name chump

when they know that I'm the star
so I got up and strolled over
to the other side of the cantina
I asked the guy, "why you so fly?"
he said "funky cold medina"

http://www.boxesmusic.com/funkycoldmedina.mov

Some reviews are starting to come in for Bad Blood. Here's two that say pretty much the exact opposite of each other, making a mockery of the whole process. First one is from Madison, Wisconsin; second one is from a German website so the translation is a little rough....

The Dublin-based two-piece Boxes recorded with Steve Albini for this album, but it's not Albini's typically straightforward production that makes Bad Blood a success. Unlike a lot of acts that experiment with odd time signatures and complex song structures, Boxes inject as much heart as head into their work. They're still man-machines, but they play with feeling. Consequently, the title track, the humorous, cyclical "Walk Man" and the punishing math-rocker "Q8S" express a kind of joie de vivre that's often lacking in the fiercely cerebral exercises whipped up by the international crowd of serious, college-educated young men who dominate this brand of guitar-driven music. Put away your calculators, boys, and enjoy. http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=4460

http://www.cargorecords.co.uk/artist_zoom.php?artist=2104

Bad Blood is coming out in the UK in a couple of weeks, distributed by those lovely people at Cargo Records...

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