Bodega have announced their new album ‘All Inside Aquarium’ and shared its melodic title track – check it out below.
The New York City band will release their fourth full-length albumand the follow-up to 2024’s ‘Our Brand Could Be Yr Life’,on October 9 via Chrysalis Records,and you can pre-order ithere.
They have shared the record’s title track as the lead single,a song built around chunky, melodic guitars, withfrontmanBen Hoziechannellinga ‘90s slacker indie energy.
Check out the video, directed by percussionist/vocalistNikki Belfiglio, here:
Speaking about the song, Hozie has said: “This track is an attempt at an existential anthem. Pain (after it subsides) can bring you closer to a beatific perspective where dichotomy disappears and curious creativity calmly trickles out like the faucet tube in the tub —> Being there, you remember all is connected and paradoxically emerge more yourself despite recognizing you are a mere flake in the fish-tank of cosmic oneness. Nobody can really mess with your head except yourself when you take responsibility for your reality.”
The album will bemadeavailable as a Dinked exclusive edition on cloudy blue vinyl, featuring the 7” single, while a limited Bandcamp edition will come with hand-painted alternate artwork byBelfiglio.
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Itsees Bodegamoving further away from the post-punk tag, with Hozie adding:“I never thought of us as a post-punk band.I just thought of us as a conceptual rock band.”
“With ‘All Inside Aquarium’, the goal was, let’s go back to melodic tunes, let’s be more of a proper rock band,” he added, citing a late-’80s and early-’90s sound somewhere between The Stone RosesandJane’s Addiction.
The album was recorded in the UK with producer Matt Peel at The Nave, his Leeds studio based in a deconsecrated church, before being mixed in Brighton with Theo Verney.
Bodega – ‘All Inside Aquarium’ tracklist:
- ‘All Inside Aquarium’
- ‘Weather Me’
- ‘Literary World’
- ‘Astro Night Ride’
- ‘Pick UpTheCheck’
- ‘Oxygen’
- ‘Fear NotTheFear’
- ‘Slow Train’
- ‘Combustible’
- ‘Pile Driver’
- ‘Backbeaten’
- ‘Olivia’
Bodegaare also playing a trio of hometown shows in the comingmonths, beforea UK and European tour later in the year, including shows in London,Bristoland Leeds. See all the dates below andfind ticketshere(North America) andhere(UK).
Bodega will play:
JUNE
23 – Brooklyn, NY, Market Hotel
JULY
8 – New York, NY, Central Park SummerStage
AUGUST
19 – Brooklyn, NY, Elsewhere Rooftop
SEPTEMBER
4 – Tenerife, Spain,PheFestival
5 – Miranda de Ebro, Spain,EbrovisiónFestival
7 – Madrid, Spain, El Sol
8 – Valencia, Spain, 16 Toneladas
9 – Barcelona, Spain, Upload
10 – Zaragoza, Spain, La Lata de Bombillas
11 – Donostia, Spain, BogaBogaFestival
13 – Asten-Heusden, Netherlands, Misty Fields Festival
15 – London, 100 Club
16 – Paris, Pop Up!
NOVEMBER
24 – Bristol, Electric Bristol
25 – London, The Garage
26 – Leeds, Irish Centre
‘All Inside Aquarium’ follows 2024’s‘Our Brand Could Be Yr Life’,as well as the 2025 mini-album ‘RotInHelvetica’, which they released under the alter-ego name NODEGA.
Last year,the band also shared ‘Myrtle Parade’ andannounced‘BrandOnTheRun’, a deluxe edition of ‘Our Brand Could Be Yr Life’ featuring seven extra tracks, including previously unreleased material and B-sides.