Box Codax - Hellabuster (2011)

2nd great album of Franz Ferdinand's Nick McCarthy solo project including 13 brilliant Alt-Pop songs. Mixed & produced by Mike Fraser (!), Metronomy, Munk, Telonius & Box Codax ! Few who heard their first record would have expected this loose outfit that convenes in the ultra-rare and highly irregular gaps between Franz Ferdinand's activities to outgrow the limited ambitions of a side project, let alone to create such a glittering ball of sheer pop invention as their second album Hellabuster. Large chunks of Hellabuster where produced in Nick and Manuela's former hometown Glasgow, where the many talents of Pabs Debussy aka Franz Ferdinand drummer Paul Thomson were in easy reach. Pabs provided beats and programming on Seven Silvers, I Won't Come Back, Hellabuster and Nothing More Than Anything. More recording on the latter three numbers as well as Sandy Moffat and Choco Pudding was done at Joseph Mount of Metronomy's home studio. Jonas Imbery and Mathias Modica from Munich-based label Gomma Records had their hands in Seven Silvers and Pour Moi, while for the songs that required an extra dose of rock (Hellabuster, I Won't Come Back) none other than AC/DC's long-serving engineer Mike Fraser took control of the mixing desk. For each of the songs on Hellabuster a video will be made by one of the band's many artistically inclined friends. Astonishing.



TRACKLIST
01 Hellabuster 04:11
02 Seven Silvers 04:45
03 Radical Plains 03:10
04 Choco Pudding 02:48
05 Pour Moi 04:02
06 I Won't Come Back 03:08
07 Charade 03:12
08 Nothing More Than Anything 04:32
09 Sandy Moffat 03:05
10 Inanimate Inamorato 04:12
11 My Room 04:21
12 No Trains 03:57
13 Dawning 03:56