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Mind in a Box
Released 2004

Change
04:59
3,882 plays

Falling
04:38
2,538 plays

Walking
03:49
2,514 plays

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- 1
- Light & Dark
- 06:42
- 2,497 plays

- 2
- Change
- 04:59
- 3,882 plays

- 3
- Falling
- 04:38
- 2,538 plays

- 4
- You Will See
- 06:34
- 2,422 plays

- 5
- Questions
- 06:27
- 2,247 plays

- 6
- Waiting
- 05:33
- 1,831 plays

- 7
- Lost Alone
- 04:19
- 2,200 plays

- 8
- Walking
- 03:49
- 2,514 plays

- 9
- Take My Soul
- 03:57
- 2,071 plays

- 10
- Forever Gone
- 06:04
- 1,890 plays

- 11
- Lost Alone 2
- 05:51
- 1,823 plays

- 12
- Leave
- 05:47
- 1,710 plays

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album review

Mind in a Box is the brainchild of video game soundtrack composer Stefan Poiss, who takes lyrics by Markus Hadwiger and sets them to music that comes from a decidedly industrial tradition without sounding in the least bit aggressive or confrontational. While a heavily processed voice delivers lines like "I feel sad, so left alone/Words are not enough for me to live on" (on "Light & Dark") and "I'm sad, so terribly sad" (on "Walking"), steady foursquare beats and chilly synthesizer chords chug and ripple underneath in a gentle and sometimes unselfconsciously tuneful way -- note in particular the lovely hook on the chorus of "Change." For an album of more-or-less industrial music to deal with issues of loneliness and alienation isn't exactly unusual, but for it to do so in such a quiet, almost contemplative way certainly is. Lost Alone may not deliver a large crossover audience for Mind in a Box -- those with a less-than-compulsive interest in industrial music will wish there were a bit more development in the sound, and maybe a few more hooks like the one featured in "Change," but this album represents a refreshing break from the usual industrial routine, and is an impressive debut effort on Poiss' part. ~ Rick Anderson, All Music Guide