Understanding Heart Shaped Box

When it came time to write the followup album to Nevermind, Nirvana decided they were done playing games. In Utero is a hardhitting, vulnerable, angry, noisy, personal album, one that couldn t care less about marketability, and one of its most intimate songs is also one of its most wellknown: HeartShaped Box. It tells a pretty bleak story, but it s an incredibly powerful song, using every single tool in its compositional toolbox to make that story stick.