Boxing the Clown

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{{Infobox album

| name = Boxing the Clown

| type = studio

| artist = Helios Creed

| cover = Helios Creed - Boxing the Clown.jpg

| alt =

| released = September 21, 1990

| recorded = Razor's Edge Recording, San Francisco, California

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Space rock

| length = 30:29

| label = Amphetamine Reptile

| producer = Jonathan Burnside, Helios Creed, Rey Washam

| prev_title = The Last Laugh

| prev_year = 1989

| next_title = Lactating Purple

| next_year = 1991

}}

{{Music ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web |first=Ned |last=Raggett |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r9164|pure_url=yes}}|title=Boxing the Clown |website=Allmusic |access-date=May 27, 2013}}

|rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

|rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_NNmFiUnSmUC&q=Boxing+the+Clown+helios+creed+1990&pg=PA129|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|first=Colin|last=Larkin|date=May 27, 2011|publisher=Omnibus Press|isbn=9780857125958|via=Google Books}}

}}

Boxing the Clown is the fourth album by Helios Creed, released in 1990 through Amphetamine Reptile Records.{{cite magazine |first=Scott |last=Frampton |url=http://trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=helios_creed |title=Helios Creed |magazine=Trouser Press |year=2007 |access-date=May 27, 2013}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHP-r9-eqdAC&q=Boxing+the+Clown+helios+creed+1990&pg=PA264|title=Alternative Rock|first=Dave|last=Thompson|date=June 21, 2000|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=9780879306076|via=Google Books}}