Baby Boot Box Reviews:

Smother.net
Spacey guitars that shoegaze their way into hard alternative bliss greet sorcerer vocals that whisper of introspective tales of grit and grim. Baby Boot Box is a rock-n-roll band that dispels the notion of the bar band theme with Doors-esque keyboards that kick everything up a notch giving it an electronic rock candy chew wrapped in the plastic coating of commercial alternative pop-rock. The vocals will surprise you as they really latch on and grow on you quite quickly.

- J-Sin

Smother.net
With Baby Boot Box it is all academic. The songs are written in various musical scales, one a “G” Blues Scale, “A” Harmonic Minor Scale, “C” Whole Tone Scale, and Modified Persian Scale. I’ve never felt more like a drummer in my whole life. After all in my musical career I’ve had relatively little use for music theory and don’t pretend to really “get it”. But I can sure appreciate nice pop-rock music with rich melodies which is precisely what Baby Boot Box does extremely well, the rest is well, the means to an end.
- J-Sin

A new album from Baby Boot Box is good news for fans of playful, melodic and sometimes melancholy pop-rock. The opening track is a delightful throwback, to what, I’m not exactly sure; it has a certain, what the French call, “I don’t know what.” It’s classic ramblin’ music though, perfect for a road trip to Mexico, oddly enough. The Latin licks are abandoned for “Dear Marilyn”, and traded in for a banjo with a decidedly un-banjo like strum. The tempo picks up again with “After the College Days” where the Boot really gets poppy while lead singer G. Russell Boot channels the vocal playfulness of Blink 182’s Tom DeLonge. The sheer diversity of sound this band creates never fails to astound. On one song you get Japanese influenced melodies, power riff guitars and post-disco electric backgrounds. Reading that sentence on paper can make you dizzy with the sheer possibility, but in the musical kitchen of Baby Boot Box it a most delicious buffet plate.

Another great band with a strange name, and as for the album title an archipelago is a chain or cluster of islands. Baby Boot Box is a snappy, jazzy, pop quartet out of Connecticut, an extremely enjoyable collection of six songs, whose word play and melodies kind of reminded me of vintage Barenaked Ladies. G. Russell Boot's vocal stylings definitely gave me an Ed Robinson vibe at times, the playful sort of tone of a man who enjoys what he does. Like all great EPs though, Archipelago is unfortunately short, your grooving one minute and the next...you're just not. Still, an enjoyable album that's just a joy to listen to.

Another sweet entry from Baby Boot Box. It only takes about ten seconds before the first track "Dead Man Down" hooks you with it's hypnotic guitar rhythms and lyrical mastery. Those lyrics tend to be a bit on the grim side though, but not grim in a negative effect sense, more like grimly honest. They're introspective and insightful, like the best poetry you never wrote in high school. Of course the whole thing is dressed up in an electronic-alt-pop-rock coating that helps the medicine go down. A great album to chill to on an otherwise gloomy day. A thoughtful and involving collection of tunes.