aaamusic | On 12, Jun 2011

Debut Single
‘Throw Your Stones’
Bow Records
Released 11th July 2011

Boxes – Throw Your Stones by BOXES

A welcoming front door into the world of electronic music for those more accustomed to acute displays of emotion, Boxes is able to package two contrasting sounds to incredible effect on debut single Throw Your Stones out on 11th July. Evoking the likes of The Postal Service and Bright Eyes, Boxes collides contagious and uplifting melodies with messed-up synths, guitars & punching beats making melancholy feel like a warm summer’s day.

Boxes, a multi-instrumentalist based in South East London manages to alternate between dazzling, revelatory out-of-body love songs and universal ruminations on life; the binding thread being Boxes’ potent stream-of-consciousness, bright jangly guitars, infectious ambient beats, faux strings and iPad bleeps.
Beginning with hair-standing tingles, debut single Throw Your Stones bounces between a hypnotic beat and threadbare, bright intoxicating vocals before finally rushing headlong into a mesmerizing crescendo; as if singing could save a life. With tour dates coming up, an EP release in August, as well as his debut album in the works for early 2012 Boxes sums up with “What’s coming now, will blow your mind”, a bold and shining statement from the single Throw Your Stones.