A way station for a lot of young talents-in-waiting, Box of Chocolates hailed from the still-forbidding borough of Brooklyn at the end of the 1980s, with their one album released at the dawn of the 90's. A collective rooted in filmmaking, they nonetheless were drawn to guitars and drums and anything else they could find for music making purposes. Contributors include a future ethnomusicologist, a 2019 Tony Award Winner, an important member of early Phish Mythology, a Honduran immigrant and the 'Prince' of Palace Music, among many other talented lost souls. Box of Chocolates took the cake and ate it too, as only happened in the freewheeling confines of the US 80s-90s. 
 

The second single "Catatonic" echoes of the golden days of college rock, circa mid-to-late 80s; classic rock harmonies shimmering in the context of the new-west/Paisley Underground movements, sinking much too suddenly in an overtly-generous pool of reverb that prefigures the ill-fitting garb of the oncoming slacker-indie wave. "Catatonic" was the first song written by the band as a collective, an impetus for creating a collection of songs in the first place! Recorded from a place shuttered to the outside world (figuratively and literally speaking), "Catatonic" encapsulates youthful experimentation and impulse, a time and place recorded onto tape that exists only by the surviving media.

Listen to "Catatonic" and discover the untold story of Box of Chocolates on June 12th!