P.O.BOX – In Between The Lines

Releasedate: 22-01-2010; Label: Long Beach Records Europe / Broken Silence
By: Nina Mende

2001, Nancy, France: P.O.BOX plays its very first gigs in France. Since then, the band has been on intensive touring through Europe, increasing its reputation of having an “explosive stage performance”. After having released a demo-cd (‘Fartcore’, 2001) and a split-cd (‘We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars’, 2002), the band signs on Winged Skull Records for the release of their first EP (‘Rock my reality’) in 2004. Thousands and thousands of kilometers spent on European roads lead the band to record their debut-album ‘…And the Lipstick Traces’ and to sign in April 2007 on Long Beach Records Europe, Übersee Records and Guerilla Asso who release this long-awaited full length in Europe, as well as on Unattractive Records in May 2007 who release it in Japan. Now they have another album released called “In Between The Lines”.

The music of P.O:BOX is still kind of rare even though there are a few bands out there already that use trumpets and such along with their punk music. P.O.BOX plays catchy and ass kicking music. You simply have to mosh and sway along. Some rhythms have something Irish or Scottish in it, but mainly you can say that it simply spreads a good mood. The songs are pushing you off the couch or at least have you groove along on the couch including a “oooohoooohooh” sing-along in some choruses. Somehow you just can’t resist that. The trumpet adds a somewhat exotic touch to it and distracts so much that you have a hard time to actually listen to the lyrics that are quite important as well because the lyrics of each song carry a message. But you can also find the lyrics in the booklet which is black. The rest of the album “package” is beige. A very interesting art work is used and you should definitely take a look at that as well. The very last song is an acoustic piece sung with soft vocals, very nice as well. P:O.BOX created a great album with “In Between The Lines”. Go get it!

Links:
P.O Box MySpace
P.O Box Official