Kategorie: CD-Reviews | Genre: Alternative/Indie, Garage | Heft: Jahrgang 2014, eclipsed Nr. 159 / 4-2014 | VÖ-Jahr: 2014 | Wertung: 7.5/10 | Label: Constellation | Autor: MaB
Born in New York, Carla Bozulich has spent three decades in a variety of bands, including the indie collective Ethyl Meatplow and the alternative country group The Geraldine Fibbers. In 2003 she started a series of studio CDs under her own name with "Red Headed Stranger", a reinterpretation of the Willie Nelson album of the same name. With "Boy", the American now underlines once again that she is not willing to let herself be pushed into a certain stylistic corner. Although she describes this song collection as a "pop album", Bozulich has nothing at all to do with smooth-ironed ready-made goods for teenagers and instead follows her muse intrepidly. With the exalted blues "Ain't No Grave" she soothes herself pleasurably in the reverb-soaked room. In "One Hard Man" and "Don't Follow Me" she largely renounces harmonies and lets herself be driven to muffled drumbeats. "Drowned To The Light" even sounds as if Mrs. Bozulich went with Kate Bush to an evening nightcap to a pub for bohemians. Oh, boy!
Top track: Drowned To The Light
