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Lunchbox

City of Origin: Oakland, CA, USA

Period of Activity: Late 1990s-early 2000s, mid-2010s to present

Members: Tim Brown, Donna McKean

Related Artists: Artsick, Birds of California

Discography:

• Lunchbox (1996)
• The Magic of Sound (1999)
• Glow Like There's No Tomorrow EP (2001)
• Summer's Over EP (2001)
• Evolver (2002)
• Lunchbox Loves You (2014)
• After School Special (2020)
• Pop and Circumstance (2024)

Social Media: Bandcamp

You might think that there's only so much that a duo can really do to stand out, but Lunchbox is a band that delights in proving you wrong! The thing that I like best about Lunchbox is that they'll often use the studio to make themselves seem a whole lot more expansive than that; there's a lot of horns and strings and neat production choices going on in their best work. In particular, I can't help but recommend Evolver; Slumberland billed its recent reissue as a "legendary lost album" and it more than lives up to that. It takes a whole lot of influence from electronica and honestly, it still feels like the future of indiepop, even though it's more than 20 years old!