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 album and the follow-up to 2024’s ‘Our Brand Could Be Yr Life’, on October 9 via Chrysalis Records, and you can pre-order it here.
They have shared the record’s title track as the lead single, a song built around chunky, melodic guitars, with frontman Ben Hozie channelling a ‘90s slacker indie energy.
Check out the video, directed by percussionist/vocalist Nikki 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 be made available 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 by Belfiglio.
It sees Bodega moving 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 Roses and Jane’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 Up The Check’
- ‘Oxygen’
- ‘Fear Not The Fear’
- ‘Slow Train’
- ‘Combustible’
- ‘Pile Driver’
- ‘Backbeaten’
- ‘Olivia’
Bodega are also playing a trio of hometown shows in the coming months, before a UK and European tour later in the year, including shows in London, Bristol and Leeds. See all the dates below and find tickets here (North America) and here (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, Phe Festival
5 – Miranda de Ebro, Spain, Ebrovisión Festival
7 – Madrid, Spain, El Sol
8 – Valencia, Spain, 16 Toneladas
9 – Barcelona, Spain, Upload
10 – Zaragoza, Spain, La Lata de Bombillas
11 – Donostia, Spain, Boga Boga Festival
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 ‘Rot In Helvetica’, which they released under the alter-ego name NODEGA.
Last year, the band also shared ‘Myrtle Parade’ and announced ‘Brand On The Run’, a deluxe edition of ‘Our Brand Could Be Yr Life’ featuring seven extra tracks, including previously unreleased material and B-sides.
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