There can be a stigma attached to the side-projects of well-known bands: they are often just cheap reincarnations of the main bands sound. This, however, is not something you can say of Box Codax.
More famously known for his role as guitarist in alternative Scot-rockers Franz Ferdinand, Nick McCarthy re-kindled his collaboration with his wife Manuela Gernedel and close pal Alexander Ragnew after five years to return this year with new album Hellabuster and single I Won’t Come Back.
This track is an upbeat number that does have airs of the Franz with anthemic repetitive lyrics. It retains its own original electronic quirks with keyboard wobbles and guitar with a psychedelic fuzzy grit.
To describe the sound in a nutshell would be most easily expressed as ‘odd’ but that description may be tainted slightly by the tracks video (also odd). Minus the visual distraction though, this disco-prog oddity does have an appeal that has propelled the Glaswegian trio into the mainstream.
