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Since the release of their debut album, Take Me Home (Armo), in 2003, Providence, RI based ZOX has emerged as one of the most promising and original new bands on the New England scene. With Soundscan sales of over 12,000 copies, the ZOX debut is also one of the biggest local success stories in recent years.
Characterized by blistering violin melodies, a pulsing backbeat, sophisticated arrangements, and the poignant and personal songwriting of a hapless romantic, the band's unique sound has won followers across the tyrannical boundaries of genre. Described by some as a cross between The Cure, Fugazi, The Police, and Beethoven, ZOX's distinctive style is at once remarkably innovative and surprisingly familiar.
The band’s intensely physical, sweat-soaked live show attracts crowds of thousands in cities throughout the Eastern U.S. Opening slots on bills like the Black Eyed Peas, O.A.R., Rusted Root, Everclear, The Roots, Guster and The Warped Tour, features on MTV’s “The Real World”, and more than 400 shows in two years have helped build the buzz on the band’s long-anticipated follow-up, The Wait (Armo), released in August '05.
Mixed by Mitch Easter (REM, Wilco, Pavement), The Wait explores ZOX’s darker, edgier side, capturing the passionate performances of a band on the brink of bigger things. The album debuted at #7 on the Billboard Internet Album chart, sound-scanning more than 4,500 copies to date. Heavy radio play of the album’s first single “Can’t Look Down” at influential commercial stations like WEQX (Albany, NY) and WBRU (Providence, RI) helped spur an incredible reaction at college radio, where ZOX got more spins than any other unsigned artist and rose to #106 on the CMJ charts. As well, two songs were licensed for the soundtrack of the upcoming Michael Moore Slacker Tour documentary, and the entire album was licensed to MTV’s “Real World/Road Rules”.
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