Carla Bozulich's post-Geraldine Fibbers career has always seemed to move in fits and starts, always starting a new project and only recording one album, if that, before moving onto the next one: Scarnella, Night Porter, one-offs by design like Red Headed Stranger. So it's been cool to see her 2006 solo album Evangelista kind of gradually involve into a steady outlet, become the band Evangelista that released last year's Hello, Voyager and now the new Prince Of Truth.

Where Evangelista was a little too bleak for my tastes, and Hello Voyager's wider variety of sounds and moods made it my favorite Bozulich project in years, Prince Of Truth unfortunately ends up somewhere in between but not as interesting as either. I've listened to it 5 times now and just can't quite get a bead on most of it, which is as spare and bare as Evangelista was but not nearly as intense or attention-grabbing. "You Are A Jaguar" is kind of the album's climax by default, but even that is kind of this seething midtempo that never quite builds to the explosion it feels like it's heading towards, much in the same way as Hello Voyager's "Lucky Lucky Luck," and "Crack Teeth" has an interesting ticking-clock kind of rhythm. But for the most part the album kinda washes over me without leaving a huge impression, and it's pretty hard for Carla Bozulich to bore me.

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