April 2026 – Box 13

Working on our new album, Hopeful Monsters, we produced a lot of country and folk songs that were not really Box 13 material. So instead of trying to shoehorn them into a Box 13 release, we just came up with a new “virtual band”/project, Crop. And we’ve just released our first album associated with this project, Therapy.

Therapy contains 12 songs in the C&W and folk vein, although we push the limits of that definition a bit, with, for example, the country punk rock anthem, “911,” an old Box 13 song recorded for, but left off of, the Death and Texas album back in 2004, and the country hip hop experiment, “The Real Real.” The album also contains a new version of Box 13’s folk ballad, “At the End of the Day.”

As with Box 13’s Hopeful Monsters, the songs on Therapy span decades. Therapy even features two songs from 1979, the first two real songs I ever wrote, Liar’s Waltz (which started out in life as “Hayes Road,” became “Sunset Song” before settling into its current lyrical form) and I.O.U. It also features some of the most recent songs I’ve written, the aforementioned “Real Real” from just a few months ago in 2026 and “At the End of the Day,” from 2024.

You can listen to Therapy on the following streaming services:

We’re proud to announce the release of our first album in over 20 years – Hopeful Monsters, available on Spotify, Tidal, Soundcloud, Amazon Music and all major streaming services.

The album contains 18 songs that span decades (the oldest song, “Sea of Cash,” was written in 1982, while the title song, “Hopeful Monsters,” was written just three years ago) and genres – there’s elliptical 80’s power pop (“Time of the Signs”), big band glitchcore (“Lightning Striking Twice”), gothic western-surf rock (“The Dreaming”), spoken word (“The Curfew”), an instrumental-only piece (“Winter Light,” which is a chamber music treatment of the melody from “Happy Hour” from the Death and Texas album), even an a capella choral song inspired by the Japanese poet Bashō’s Narrow Road to the Interior.