New York art-rock/post punk band BODEGA have announced the release of their third studio album ‘Our Brand Could Be Yr Life‘. The record’s lead single “Tarkovski” accompanies today’s announcement.
The follow-up to 2022’s ‘Broken Equipment (Xtra Equipment)‘, will be released on April 12 through Chrysalis Records. Pre-order your copy here.
Sometimes you have to move backwards to move forwards. Just ask punk cultural commentators BODEGA, whose new album sees them carve a new future from fuzz-soaked, consumerism-skewering shards of their past. The LP is a full ‘remake’ of Ben and Nikki’s old band BODEGA BAY’s sole LP which was a self-released 33 track album from 2015.
“It’s something we’ve been wanting to do for years,” guitarist and vocalist Ben Hozie explains of Our Brand Could Be Yr Life – a collection of catchy indie-rock ruminations on the slow-creep of corporate-think into youth culture, first written eight years ago.
The record’s 15 tracks explore indie-rock subgenres, self-critique and everything in between. “I think it’s our best- sounding record to date,” says Hozie, “It’s got dance-punk. There’s some shoegaze, there’s slacker rock on there. There’s psychedelic rock on there. R.E.M, too. We wanted to be another band in a long stream of missionaries, proselytising a certain type of rock subculture.”
Check out “Tarkovski” below, followed by the album’s tracklist and artwork.
Our Brand Could Be Yr Life Tracklist:
- Dedicated to the Dedicated
- G.N.D. Deity
- Bodega Bait
- Tarkovski
- Major Amberson
- Stain Gaze
- Webster Hall
- ATM
- Set the Controls for the Heart of the Drum
- Protean
- Born into by what Consumes
- Cultural Consumer I
- Cultural Consumer II
- Cultural Consumer III
- City is Taken
