Bodega announce fourth album, ‘All Inside Aquarium’, with existential title track
New York quartet Bodega have announced their fourth album, All Inside Aquarium, with a boisterous yet existential title track that doubles as the album’s opener.
Following their latest release, 2024’s Our Brand Could Be Your Life, Bodega have set a new intention to explore new sonic terrain on the album slated for an October 9th release via Chrysalis Records.
Guitarist and vocalist Ben Hozie described the new material as aiming for “this late ’80s/early ’90s Stone Roses-meets-Jane’s Addiction thing, with more riffing and guitar solos”.
Building on this, Hozie explained that the album opener 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.”
He added pertinently, “Nobody can really mess with your head except yourself when you take responsibility for your reality.”
The song also comes with an accompanying video, directed by percussionist and vocalist Nikki Belfiglio, which boasts true, tactile fun.
Belfiglio explained, “I decided then to make a gag-filled green screen music video set inside the mini-world I created [for the album artwork] to capture the playfulness I felt while making the album art.”
As for the album itself, the group spent a month and a half in Leeds working with producer Matt Peel (Yard Act, Eagulls) at the Nave, in a deconsecrated church. Eagle-eyed fans might see this featured in the album’s resplendent artwork, too.
Far Out gave Bodega’s third album a glowing four-and-a-half-star review, observing, “There is no doubt that Our Brand Could Be Yr Life is the band’s masterpiece; it is the culmination of everything they have been trying to perfect over the past seven years.”
See the full All Inside Aquarium tracklist below.
Bodega – ‘All Inside Aquarium’ tracklist:
- ‘All Inside Aquarium’
- ‘Weather Me’
- ‘Literary World’
- ‘Astro Night Ride’
- ‘Pick up the Check’
- ‘Oxygen’
- ‘Fear not the Fear’
- ‘Slow Train’
- ‘Combustible’
- ‘Pile Driver’
- ‘Backbeaten’
- ‘Olivia’
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