The Bunny Boy is an album released on September 1, 2008, by avant-garde

Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....

 group The Residents

The Residents

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. According to the group's blog, the album is similar to their previous albums Duck Stab

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

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, The Commercial Album

The Commercial Album

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and Demons Dance Alone

Demons Dance Alone

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and contains "19 fast paced songs" about "[o]bsession, 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

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

Patmos

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 in Greece. Bunny encourages fans to
email him at wearedoomed666@gmail.com. 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 66 episodes, which were later released on a DVD entitled Is Anybody Out There?.

Track listing

1. Boxes of Armageddon
2. Rabbit Habit
3. I'm Not Crazy
4. Pictures from a Little Girl
5. What If It's True?
6. Fever Dreams
7. Butcher Shop
8. I Like Black
9. Secret Room
10. My Nigerian Friend
11. It Was Me
12. Golden Guy
13. The Bunny Boy
14. Blood on the Bunny
15. I Killed Him
16. The Dark Man
17. Secret Message
18. Patmos
19. The Black Behind

External links

• Residents.Com Historical page on The Bunny Boy