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Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Artboxs self produced second album, CRUSH, blends indie, pop, hip hop, and rock into a sexy, cute, and edgy new sound. From the controversial rap song Oblivion, to the sassy rock of Another Phase, kids everywhere are getting hyped and talking about Artbox.

CRUSH made a smashing debutat #12 on the CMJ radio 200 chart. "Artbox is where girls go after they are tired of the Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears, Christian Strickland president of 3FM records suggests.

Building on their buzz as the hottest new college band in America, Now Youre Mine the last track on Crush was added to rotation at LIVE 105 the modern rock powerhouse based in San Francisco. Riding on their overwhelming response from listeners artbox will set out on a West Coast promotional tour, featuring live gigs as well as numerous in store appearences.

Consisting of three 21 year olds from San Francisco Artbox has been making noise ever since childhood friends D-funk (Deric Williams) and Artboy (Timothy Plain) picked up their acoustic guitars and a four track in the fall of 1997. Schoolmate Gunner (Scott Bolton) joined the band shortly after.

The band is currently completing videos for the first two singles with director Christian Strickland and finishing the screenplay for their first feature film Surveillance.

Tracks:

Intro
In A Guy's Body
Oblivion
Another Phase
Haircolour
Counting Japanese
Talk About It
Atari Opera
Don't Forget Who You Are
The blues
She Was My Girl
Concept Skit
Girls Like you
Baby Yuppie
Now You're Mine

Album Description

Artboxs self produced second album, CRUSH, blends indie, pop, hip hop, and rock into a sexy, cute, and edgy new sound. From the controversial rap song Oblivion, to the sassy rock of Another Phase, kids everywhere are getting hyped and talking about Artbox.

The band is currently completing videos for the first two singles with director Christian Strickland and finishing the screenplay for their first feature film Surveillance.

Customer Reviews:

Artbox - not that artsy, but fun.......2002-10-31

There are a lot of great things about this album, and a lot of bad things. I'll start this review off by saying i worked with drummer, Scotty "Gunner" Bolton, at a comic book store in Mountain View, CA. Also, as far as i know, the band is only D-Funk at the moment, and he is pursuing a musical career in the L.A. area.

Anyways, i'll start with the good. The album design is very cool with the pictures of all three members of the band and their girlfriends in San Francisco. Also, the humor of this band is very entertaining evident on songs such as "Oblivion" where we hear art-student rap from D-Funk, "In A Guy's Body" which has some great yowls and funny lyrics (not sure if they're supposed to be). It also sounds like these guys had fun in the studio with songs like "Atari Opera." Also, the songs are simple and catchy.

But the simplicity is part of its problem. The album gets pretty old after a while because there isn't really an emotional draw with this album that really hooks me in. While some of the lyrics are inspired, a lot of them are pretty bad. Some of the "sex" lyrics on songs like "Girls Like You" are pretty weird, and D-Funk (i think) really likes to write about girls on their knees. There is also some pretty bad singing as well.

So i tried to be fair, as this album most likely won't change your life, but it is fun, crude, neatly produced, indie, and young. I imagine you'll be bobbing your head to the fun beat. So if you want something fun, get this album. It is certainly that.

The coolest album ever made.......2001-02-01