{"id":1062,"date":"2014-03-17T10:36:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T14:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2014-03-25T10:52:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T14:52:14","slug":"carla-bozulich-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/carla-bozulich-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Carla Bozulich <br>Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/carla_bozulich-boy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1063\" alt=\"Carla Bozulich, Boy\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/carla_bozulich-boy.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/carla_bozulich-boy.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/carla_bozulich-boy-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Carla Bozulich\u2019s work has always been filled with an amorphous dread regarding such things as addiction, intimacy, and mortality, and on <i>Boy<\/i> (Constellation Records), there&#8217;s a definite sense that she\u2019s feeling death at her back. \u201cDon\u2019t follow me no more,\u201d she incants on \u201cDon\u2019t Follow Me,\u201d\u00a0 while on \u201cDeeper Than the Well,\u201d even the moon is dead. So, this isn\u2019t the easy listening, feel good record of the season. This art-punk hero seeks something rarer, something for which you have to fight: catharsis.<\/p>\n<p>Much of this music has an improvisatory feel to it. Riffs and organ figures creep in and out over rolling drums and crashing cymbals, as repeated lyrical phrases become almost mantric. If ever there\u2019s a regular beat, it begs to be described as lurching. Opener \u201cAin\u2019t No Grave\u201d has barely more lyrics than \u201cAin\u2019t no grave can hold me down,\u201d chanted over and over in various permutations. Just look at that album cover, Bozulich wants you disoriented. She\u2019s walking you down a dark path, and just when you\u2019re most unsteady, she lets go of your hand. If you fall into this record, it\u2019s overwhelming. Sometimes the repetition builds to violent fits, and sometimes, as on \u201cDrowned to the Light,\u201d she slows down the effect, dragging you into a dark hole and just leaving you there.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s hardly any melody or harmony to speak of on this record, so when the scraping and creaking yields to something rather pretty (e.g. the beginning of \u201cDanceland\u201d or the middle portion of \u201cGonna Stop Killing\u201d), the sense of relief is like coming up for air. And when the album finds its first real groove eight tracks in on \u201cLazy Crossbones,\u201d it\u2019s like you\u2019ve finally spotted the path out of the woods. And finally, when you hear the first major chords of the record (\u201cWhat Is It Baby?\u201d), it\u2019s the end of a long night, dawn finally finding your eyes, the light at the end of the tunnel. 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