Name: Prosthetic Boombox
Brand: Cola Boyy

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

REC174CD

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Discs

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Digipack with Pocket, Poster Booklet.

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-07-30

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

3516628357626

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Cola Boyy

Genre GB

Label GB

Record Makers

There’s liberation on the dance floor in the songs of Matthew Urango – glimpses of revolution that glimmer beneath the disco ball. “I want my music to bring people together,” says the Californian pop innovator, best known as Cola Boyy. “Because standing together is our best chance at fighting this shit show.” The shit show in question is a broken, brutal system the acclaimed multi-instrumentalist has witnessed up-close. Urango was born with spina bifida and scoliosis in Oxnard, California: a town in which almost 30,000 are estimated to live in poverty. <i>Prosthetic Boombox</i>, his eagerly awaited debut album, might at first glance seem a joyous confetti-burst of pop eclecticism, engineered to sound like “scanning between stations on a car radio, landing on all these different sounds and styles” as Urango puts it. Dig deeper, though, and you’ll discover a simmering sense of rebellion. “The working class are injured, struggling to pay rent and struggling to put food on the table,” he says. “I want to represent that.” <i>Prosthetic Boombox</i> achieves that goal in a thrilling flurry of inventive indie, funk and soul: take Urango’s car radio analogy, place it in a time-travelling Delorean with Prince in the passenger seat, and you’re half-way there.

Prosthetic Boombox

Music GB