''The Bunny Boy'' is an album by American
art rock
Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that generally reflects a challenging or avant-garde approach to rock, or which makes use of modernist, experimental, or unconventional elements. Art rock aspires to elevate rock from entertainment to an ar ...
band
the Residents
The Residents are an American art collective and art rock band best known for their avant-garde music and multimedia works. Since their first official release, ''Meet the Residents'' (1974), they have released over 60 albums, numerous music vid ...
. Released on September 1, 2008,
it is a
concept album
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. According to the group's blog, the music was intended to be similar to their previous albums ''
Duck Stab'', ''
The Commercial Album
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'' and ''
Demons Dance Alone'' and contains "19 fast-paced songs" about "
session, insanity and the coming Apocalypse".
In addition to The Residents, frequent collaborators Nolan Cook, Carla Fabrizio and Joshua Raoul Brody also appear on the album.
A tour started in October, and a narrative Internet series also appeared on
YouTube
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. The series concerns a character known as the Bunny Boy or Bunny, who makes videos in his secret room and puts them on YouTube. In the videos he asks viewers to help him find his brother Harvey, who went missing on the island of
Patmos
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...
in Greece. Bunny encourages fans to email him. The Residents' official website later announced that Bunny wished his videos to be removed. Later, they uploaded the first season again via SeeOfSound, so that the advertising money would go towards Bunny's bus ticket to Arkansas. A second season began on 16 February. The series ran for a total of 66 episodes, which were later released on a DVD entitled '' Is Anybody Out There?''.
A comic book ''The Bunny Boy Comic'', illustrated by Adam Weller with a script by The Residents and Bunny, saw a limited release of 199 copies on RalphAmerica in June 2010 and was also sold at the European leg of the Talking Light tour.
A book ''The Bunny Boy Emails'', containing a selection of the emails between Bunny and his fans, picked by Jen Kraynak and Paulie Kraynak of ''Bandits Mages'', was released in 2019 after a crowdfunding campaign.
Track listing
# "Boxes of Armageddon"
# "Rabbit Habit"
# "I'm Not Crazy"
# "Pictures from a Little Girl"
# "What If It's True?"
# "Fever Dreams"
# "Butcher Shop"
# "I Like Black"
# "Secret Room"
# "My Nigerian Friend"
# "It Was Me"
# "Golden Guy"
# "The Bunny Boy"
# "Blood on the Bunny"
# "I Killed Him"
# "The Dark Man"
# "Secret Message"
# "Patmos"
# "The Black Behind"
References
External links
Residents.Com Historical page on The Bunny Boy
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2008 albums
The Residents albums