April 12 street date. 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. "Our Brand Could Be YR Life" is BODEGA's first album release through Chrysalis Records. "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 15 tracks on "Our Brand Could Be YR Life" explore indie-rock subgenres, self-critique and everything in between. Says Hozie, "It's got dance-punk. There's some shoegaze on there. 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".
April 12 street date. 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. "Our Brand Could Be YR Life" is BODEGA's first album release through Chrysalis Records. "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 15 tracks on "Our Brand Could Be YR Life" explore indie-rock subgenres, self-critique and everything in between. Says Hozie, "It's got dance-punk. There's some shoegaze on there. 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".
April 26 street date. With his first two records, "Salvador" (2020) and "Romeo" (2021), Sega Bodega introduced a reinvention of dance music driven by a kind of dream-logic which addled the mind but made sense to the body. His third longplayer, "Dennis", arrived following an experience of mania. During a turbulent time in his personal life, the toll it took manifested itself in spikes of euphoria, sleepless nights, and surrender to impulse. The difference between "reality" and this mind-altered state felt paper-thin. "Dennis" is a translation of how this feels. His irreplicable sound has been woven into his producing work for pop disruptors including Eartheater, Caroline Polachek, and Shygirl, on her Mercury Prize-nominated record "Nymph"; and more recently, Björk, on her and Rosalía's collaborative single "Oral".
April 26 street date. With his first two records, "Salvador" (2020) and "Romeo" (2021), Sega Bodega introduced a reinvention of dance music driven by a kind of dream-logic which addled the mind but made sense to the body. His third longplayer, "Dennis", arrived following an experience of mania. During a turbulent time in his personal life, the toll it took manifested itself in spikes of euphoria, sleepless nights, and surrender to impulse. The difference between "reality" and this mind-altered state felt paper-thin. "Dennis" is a translation of how this feels. His irreplicable sound has been woven into his producing work for pop disruptors including Eartheater, Caroline Polachek, and Shygirl, on her Mercury Prize-nominated record "Nymph"; and more recently, Björk, on her and Rosalía's collaborative single "Oral".
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