Box Of Chocolates: New Album 'Fearful Symmetry' Out June 12th
It is as we have dared to hope and fear! Box of Chocolates' seminal Fearful Symmetry has returned to our life. Fearful Symmetry is a story or record of a group of artistically inclined people who haphazardly found themselves living together and who - toward the end of the arrangement - decided to record the experience in the form of songs written whilst at 140 Plymouth Street in Dumbo." Yes, in Brooklyn. Circa 1990. Already, there's more to the story than you would have known if you'd cracked this particular Box of Chocolate back in the early 90s! With the new artwork, and the inclusion of several pieces that weren't there back then - or even finished back then - this reissue of Fearful Symmetry is a living, growing document of a disorganized and disheveled film cooperative (is there any other kind?), who dared to trace its name in the sands, and have come back to deepen the groove.
Single "Catatonic" echoes of the golden days of college rock, circa mid-to-late 80s; classic rock harmonies shimmering in the context of the new-west/Paisley Underground movements, sinking much too suddenly in an overtly-generous pool of reverb that prefigures the ill-fitting garb of the oncoming slacker-indie wave. "Catatonic" was the first song written by the band as a collective, an impetus for creating a collection of songs in the first place! Recorded from a place shuttered to the outside world (figuratively and literally speaking), "Catatonic" encapsulates youthful experimentation and impulse, a time and place recorded onto tape that exists only by the surviving media.
Whether you yourself are new to your youthful journey, far from home or among it, we bring Fearful Symmetry to your life, as a needed bit of psychic Feng Shui. Listen to "Stigmatoria," hear that familiar voice, and spin it on: Fearless Symmetry drops on June 12th!