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The Box Social's first LP is due out later this year, and this song will presumably be on it. While it's true that the hard-edged sound of Blown to Bits is nowhere to be found in this song, it remains a harder approach than their previous EP, which was described to me as "pop-punk," but which I think more correctly classified as college rock. This song sounds like something on the hard end of the spectrum in the genre that I'm calling rademo (rayd-ee-moh) -- the radio-friendly emo-style rock of bands such as Jimmy Eat World and Death Cab. It'll be interesting to see if they can pull it off, since rademo is best characterized by its easy tendency to slip into LiveJournal soundtracking for 14-year-old girls, and I don't think that fits with the Box Social's tone at all.