Karla Bonoff

With Wild Heart of the Young, Karla Bonoff has finally stopped playing the role of the
passive loser in L.A.'s erotic sweepstakes. By incorporating R&B inflections into her singing
and her dreamy folk-pop tunes, Bonoff has strengthened her style to the point that she no
longer sounds like an all-too-willing victim of love; instead, she looks back on romantic
failure with dry-eyed regret. In her finest performance, she turns Paul Kelly's "P... More >