Box Car Racer - Box Car Racer (VINYL) |

Box Carr Racer: Thomas DeLonge (vocals, guitar); Dave Kennedy (guitar); Anthony Celestino (bass); Travis Barker (drums). Additional personnel: Tim Armstrong (vocals, guitar, bass). Box Car Racer: Thomas DeLonge (vocals, guitar, bass); Dave Kennedy (guitar); Roger Joseph Manning (keyboards); Travis Barker (drums). Additional personnel: Mark Hoppus, Tim Armstrong (vocals). Recorded at Signature Sound, San Diego, California; Larabee, West Hollywood, California; O'Henry Studios, Burbank, California. Strictly a Blink-182 side project (featuring that band's guitarist Tom DeLonge and drummer Travis Barker), Box Car Racer doesn't stray too far from addressing the needs and concerns of the "other" band's core teen fanbase. Choosing to leave behind the toilet humor and skate-punk swagger normally associated with Blink, this outing instead goes down the road of vulnerability and insecurity that makes up the dark side of adolescence. Not surprisingly, Box Car Racer's stylistic hard-wiring features plenty of harmonies, prickly riffs, and pounding rhythms that come to the fore on the funky "And I," the hard-charging time changes of the opening "I Feel So," and the raging hardcore of "My First Punk Song." Balancing out all this aggression are numbers where DeLonge swaps his electric guitar for an acoustic; heartfelt proclamations of love ("There Is") and the realization of life's fragility ("Letters To God"). Rounding out this self-titled debut are guest spots by Rancid's Tim Armstrong and A New Found Glory's Jordan Pundik (a chiming "Cat Like Thief"), and Blink bandmate Mark Hoppus ("Elevator"). BOX CAR RACER turns out to be an interesting visit to Blink-182's emerging serious side.

Label:
Geffen Records – B0026357-01
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, 15th Anniversary Edition
Country:
US
Released:
May 19, 2017
Genre:
Rock
Style:
Alternative Rock, Pop Punk, Experimental
A1        I Feel So
A2        All Systems Go
A3        Watch The World
A4        Tiny Voices
A5        Cat Like Thief
B1        And I
B2        Letters To God
B3        My First Punk Song
B4        Sorrow
B5        There Is
B6        The End With You
B7        Elevator
B8        Instrumental
Mastered At – Record Technology Incorporated – 26502
Mastered At – Record Technology Incorporated – 26803
A&R [Vinyl] – Chelsea Taylor (3)
Mixed By – Rich Costey
Producer – Jerry Finn
15th anniversary reissue on black vinyl.
Some copies (with multiple restocks) were signed by Tom Delonge and available exclusively from the To the Stars webstore.
Smaller "Parental Advisory" icon than on first pressing.
Barcode (Text): 602557407921
Barcode (Scanned): 602557407921
Matrix / Runout (Runout A): B0014307-01-A RE 26502.1 (2)...
Matrix / Runout (Runout B, variant 1): B0014307-01-B RE 2 26502.1 (2)...
Matrix / Runout (Runout B, variant 2): B0014307-01-B RE2 26803.2(2)..
 

• Format: Vinyl
• Genre: POP
• RSD Date: n/a
• Released: 5/19/2017