Dig deeper, though, and you’ll discover a simmering sense of rebellion. Prosthetic Boombox, 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. Urango was born with spina bifida and scoliosis in Oxnard, California: a town in which almost 30,000 are estimated to live in poverty. “ 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. “ I want my music to bring people together,” says the Californian pop innovator, best known as Cola Boyy. ![]() There’s liberation on the dance floor in the songs of Matthew Urango – glimpses of revolution that glimmer beneath the disco ball.
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