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Mar 4, 2014It’s another glorious achievement for an artist who has created so much amazing art since arriving into the world fully formed way back in 1982.
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Mar 4, 2014All works of art, like all minds, have the potential to overcome mere sentiment. And that potential is glimpsed here in 10 restless hatchlings that make up Carla Bozulich’s new and perhaps most essential record.
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Mar 4, 2014It is searing, raw and lusty, tender, open and vulnerable.
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Jun 13, 2014Unlike Waits of late, she works hard to not let the songs become just moody soundscapes. She doesn’t always completely achieve this, but does so enough to make this a success.
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Apr 21, 2014Throughout Boy, the action recedes into a murky distance from which disembodied details reach out like the tiny malevolent creatures that hide under the staircase in your nightmares.
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Mar 25, 2014This may be Carla Bozulich’s take on pop music, but Boy is rarely anything short of cathartic.
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Mar 14, 2014Boy confirms that Bozulich is at least as good as Cave or Waits at contemporising the blues, at crafting bold, gritty, assertive art that is enchantingly oddball yet still accessible, not to mention infinitely rewarding.
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Mar 7, 2014Simply put, there are few artists with the precision and poetic fortitude of Carla Bozulich, and on Boy, she commands attention like no one else.
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Mar 4, 2014Boy is intense, intrusive, brutally honest, compelling and mature if not ironically titled; it certainly bears nothing in common with infancy.
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Mar 26, 2014Her work on Boy should be sufficient to satisfy her longtime followers and perhaps draw some new onlookers into the fold.
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The WireMar 28, 2014If Boy falters, it's toward the end, where out of three softer focused tracks, only "Danceland" charms its way into the memory. [Mar 2014, p.53]
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Mar 7, 2014[The music is] touching and abrasive all at once. Quite an accomplishment for her “pop album”.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 10 out of 18
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Mixed: 3 out of 18
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Negative: 5 out of 18
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Apr 23, 2014