"If Boy emerged from the oeuvre of a broadsheet-friendly icon such as Nick Cave, Patti Smith or Tom Waits it would be lauded as an uncompromising work of genius." – SUNDAY TIMES

"You're in her world now, so look alive. A glorious achievement. Long may she run." – PASTE (9.3 rating)

"A landscape where Tom Waits and Michael Gira enjoy critical tongue-baths ought to make room for Carla." – NME

"Carla Bozulich’s new and perhaps most essential record…Boy is a living, gasping, impassioned/dispassionate grapple with existence." – TINY MIX TAPES (4.5 stars)

"On Boy, Bozulich has pulled the word 'pop' back from the abyss of meaninglessness. Her most accessible record in some time, though her use of recognizable genre, melody, rhythm, and harmony, shatters conventional notions. Searing, raw and lusty, tender, open and vulnerable." – ALLMUSIC (4.5 stars)

"Boy is filled with memorable songs that are full-muscled enough to withstand whatever level of barbed deconstruction that Bozulich throws at them...At her best, Bozulich uses the vernacular song forms of country, blues, and yes, even “pop”, to tap into something that feels much more elemental, a vein of primitive emotion that feels like it could pre-date the notion of musical genres entirely." - PITCHFORK



Description
Carla Bozulich is an art-punk heroine. Time and again she has headed up bands that sound like nothing else and arguably stake out genres unto themselves: the bent agit-prop of Ethyl Meatplow; the ferocious roots-tinged epic rock of The Geraldine Fibbers; the vocal-driven sound-art of Scarnella and Evangelista; her large-scale performances including the ongoing Eyes For Ears series. Her first "solo" record, the 2003 album-length cover of Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger, was rightly hailed as a masterpiece of reinterpretation and recontextual.......
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