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 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).
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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