Boxes (Goo Goo Dolls album)

Boxes is the eleventh studio album by American rock band Goo Goo Dolls. It was released on May 6, 2016, through Warner Bros. Records.^[1] It marks the band's first album since A Boy Named Goo recorded without drummer Mike Malinin, who was removed from the band in 2013, and their first album to be recorded as a duo. Upon release, Boxes debuted and peaked at #27 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, with first week sales of 15,000 copies. The album marks the first studio album released by the band to not debut in the top ten since 1998's Dizzy Up the Girl.

Boxes
Studio album by Goo Goo Dolls
Released	May 6, 2016 (2016-05-06)
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	42:00
Label	Warner Bros.
Goo Goo Dolls chronology
Magnetic (2013) Boxes (2016) Miracle Pill (2019)
Singles from Boxes
"So Alive" Released: April 8, 2016 "Over and Over" Released: October 12, 2016

Singles

The lead single from Boxes, "So Alive", was released on April 8, 2016. A second single, "Over And Over", was released to radio on October 12 of the same year, along with an official lyric video.

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic rated the album three out of five stars and states: "(The band) unapologetically embraces their middle age, excising any remaining hints of the raucous rock band of yore and splitting their time between power ballads and insistent anthems."^[2]

Track listing

Credits adapted from ASCAP.^[3]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Over and Over"	John Rzeznik, Robby Takac, Craig MacIntyre, Drew Pearson	4:07
2.	"Souls in the Machine"	Rzeznik, Pearson	3:50
3.	"Flood" (featuring Sydney Sierota)	Rzeznik, Derek Fuhrmann, Gregg Wattenberg	4:12
4.	"The Pin"	Rzeznik, Pearson	4:12
5.	"Boxes"	Rzeznik, Brad Fernquist	4:22
6.	"Free of Me"	Takac	3:35
7.	"Reverse"	Rzeznik, Jarrad Kritzstein, Pearson	4:13
8.	"Lucky One"	Rzeznik, Fuhrmann, Wattenberg	3:05
9.	"So Alive"	Rzeznik, Fuhrmann, Wattenberg	3:15
10.	"Prayer in My Pocket"	Takac	3:34
11.	"Long Way Home"	Rzeznik, Wattenberg, Jordan Miller	3:34
Total length:			42:00

Japanese bonus track

No.	Title	Length
12.	"Walk Away"	3:47

Personnel

Credits adapted from AllMusic and album's liner notes.^[4][5]

Goo Goo Dolls

• John Rzeznik – guitar, vocals (1–5, 7–9, 11), background vocals (3, 8, 9)
• Robby Takac – bass guitar, vocals (6, 10)

Musicians Mike Adubato – keyboards (9), piano (3, 6, 8–11) Yazz Alali – background vocals (5) John Alicastro – background vocals (9) Brad Fernquist – guitar (1, 2, 4, 5, 7) Clare Fisher – violin (10) Gretchen Fisher – violin (10) Kiersten Fisher – viola (10) Derek A.E. Fuhrmann – guitar (3, 6, 8, 10, 11), piano (3, 6, 10), background vocals (3, 8–11) George Hattori – guitar (10) Rachel Kanner – background vocals (9) Kim Kat – background vocals (2) Michael Lauri – background vocals (9) Craig MacIntyre – drums (1, 2, 4, 5, 7), percussion (4) Jordan Miller – background vocals (9, 11) Mark Neisser – background vocals (3) Gunnar Olsen – drums (3, 8, 9, 11), guitar (3, 8) Drew Pearson – keyboards (4) Shawn Pelton – drums (6, 10) Sydney Sierota – vocals (3) Kit Walters – background vocals (10, 11) Gregg Wattenberg – guitar (3, 6, 8, 11), background vocals (3, 8–11) Katie Weissman – cello (10)

Technical Mike Adubato – engineer (3, 6, 8–11), programming (9) Jeffery David – vocal production (3) Emerson Day – assistant engineer (1–5) Mark Endert – mixing Richie English – string arrangements (10) Nicolas Essig – assistant engineer (7) Kevin J. Estrada – engineer (1–5, 7) Derek A.E. Fuhrmann – production (3, 6, 8–11), programming (3, 6, 10) Doug Johnson – mixing assistant Justin Rose – engineer (9, 10), string production and engineering (10) Drew Pearson – production (1, 2, 4, 5, 7), engineer (1, 2, 4, 5, 7) Gregg Wattenberg – production (3, 6, 8–11), programming (3, 6, 10) Tom Coyne – mastering engineer

Charts

Chart (2016)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[6]	78
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[7]	72
US Billboard 200[8]	27
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[9]	3
UK Albums (OCC)[10]	72

Release history

Source: Amazon.com^[11]

Region	Date	Format(s)	Label
United States	May 6, 2016	CD digital download vinyl	Warner Bros.

In popular culture

The single, "So Alive", was used in a 2017 television advertisement for BMW.^[12]